The Ragged Edge Of The World (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
As I write this there are over 1,500 wolves in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Since the reintroduction of 66 animals in 1995, after a seventy-year absence, the wolves have had a profound impact on America’s greatest wild preserve. Elk, which had become relaxed about most predators before the wolf returned, have changed their behavior, and this in turn has relieved some pressure on seasonal plants. Coyote numbers have been cut in half. In the fall of 1992, just as the U.S. government was preparing to reintroduce gray wolves to Yellowstone, a hunter shot what looked like a wolf just south of the park. This caused an uproar, not so much because the hunter might have shot an endangered species, but because the very indication of the presence of wolves in Yellowstone would pose a huge bureaucratic problem. If the wolves had indeed managed to make it back to Yellowstone on their own, it mooted an arduously crafted management plan to install a new population of the animals. I was told about this killing by Renee Askins, who then ran the Wolf Fund, an NGO she had set up to promote the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone.
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