New tech is helping researchers better understand Yellowstone's apex predators.

Over the last three decades, Yellowstone National Park has undergone an ecological cascade. As elk numbers fell, aspen and willow trees thrived. This, in turn, allowed beaver numbers to increase, ...

When gray wolves returned to Yellowstone National Park, the public heard a simple story: predators came back, balance returned, and the whole ecosystem changed. That narrative held that elk numbers ...

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mountain Journal. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s ...