Colorado's ongoing wolf reintroduction will change elk hunting in the state. Here are some things hunters can expect to ...
The primary driver of decreased elk browsing pressure and increased aspen tree regeneration was a reduction in elk population density." ...
With nothing else to eat, predators were taking ... "What whittle the antelope so swift but the wolf's tooth." And if you think about it, you know, elk are wily and strong and alert because ...
The study, which began in 2001, looked at the food web, or the interlocking food chains in the area (what eats ... to observe elk population reductions due to the reintroduction of wolves to ...
“The reality is the wolves are predators they need to eat and they can’t read signs,” says Cunningham. “If we tell them just to eat the elk they don’t obey that.” The Alberta ...
Or did the mere presence of wolves make elk so nervous they didn’t eat as many aspen, or avoided areas where they may have encountered wolves, called a trait-mediated indirect effect (TMIE)?
This year’s elk season is a historic one in Colorado. It’s the first time in more than 80 years that big-game hunters have shared the landscape with an established population of gray wolves.