Robert Fanning peddled a simplistic, incendiary narrative about wolves and elk in Yellowstone. While he predicted lobos would bring biological disaster to elk and other animals in the park, it never happened. In fact, elk numbers are rising again and wolf numbers have stabilized at less than half of their population on the Northern Range in the years after their reintroduction. Top, a lone wolf hunts in Yellowstone (photo courtesy NPS/Jacob W. Frank)). Below that photo, elk return to the Lamar Valley, part of the Northern Range complex, in early summer. (Photo courtesy NPS/Neil Herbert)
Robert Fanning peddled a simplistic, incendiary narrative about wolves and elk in Yellowstone. While he predicted lobos would bring biological disaster to elk and other animals in the park, it never happened. In fact, elk numbers are rising again and wolf numbers have stabilized at less than half of their population on the Northern Range in the years after their reintroduction. Top, a lone wolf hunts in Yellowstone (photo courtesy NPS/Jacob W. Frank)). Below that photo, elk return to the Lamar Valley, part of the Northern Range complex, in early summer. (Photo courtesy NPS/Neil Herbert)