How many people still remember when "elk overpopulation" on Yellowstone's Northern Range was considered a serious problem as wapiti grazing exacted severe impacts on park plants, aspen and other wood vegetation. In this photo by Jim Peaco with the National Park Service haggard-looking elk are fed hay on the outskirts of Gardiner, Montana. A quarter century after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, lobos and elk appear to have reached a state of dynamic equilibrium with their numbers. This is what Monbiot has in mind with red deer and wolves in Scotland.
How many people still remember when "elk overpopulation" on Yellowstone's Northern Range was considered a serious problem as wapiti grazing exacted severe impacts on park plants, aspen and other wood vegetation. In this photo by Jim Peaco with the National Park Service haggard-looking elk are fed hay on the outskirts of Gardiner, Montana. A quarter century after wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, lobos and elk appear to have reached a state of dynamic equilibrium with their numbers. This is what Monbiot has in mind with red deer and wolves in Scotland.