What Happens When Wolves Are Reintroduced?

Wolves are causing a trophic cascade of ecological change, including helping to increase beaver populations and bring back aspen, and vegetation.

What would happen if wolves were reintroduced?

But one takeaway from Yellowstone is clear, Lambert says: Wolves will certainly eat some of Colorado's abundant elk. If wolves are reintroduced, she expects the state's herds will be “leaner, meaner, and healthier.”

What happens when wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone?

By the end of 1996, 31 wolves were relocated to the park. Bringing back the wolves struck a nerve among ranchers along the park's boundaries who feared the wolves would wander out of the park and kill their livestock.