{"id":10466,"date":"2025-02-13T05:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:08","slug":"education-the-wolf-impact-on-yellowstone-np-20-year-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10466","title":{"rendered":"Education: The wolf impact on Yellowstone NP &#8211; 20 year study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-051043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10467\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-051043.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"757\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-051043.jpg 757w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-13-051043-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><strong>Read what the study says <a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Reintroduced-Wolves-Caused-A.pdf\">Reintroduced Wolves\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New research has demonstrated the powerful impacts the reintroduction of predators can have on an ecosystem. The presence of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has driven a cascading effect that has literally changed the landscape.\u00a0 The new study used data from previous studies on 25 riparian (streamside) sites collected over a 20-year period \u2013 from 2001 to 2020. The results show a 1,500 percent increase in willow crown volume along these streams in northern Yellowstone National Park. The effects were produced by changing behavior among elk adapting to the presence of a large carnivore guild (wolves) reintroduced into the Park in 1995-96, and other factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read what the study says Reintroduced Wolves\u00a0 New research has demonstrated the powerful impacts the reintroduction of predators can have on an ecosystem. The presence of wolves in Yellowstone National Park has driven a cascading effect that has literally changed the landscape.\u00a0 The new study used data from previous studies on 25 riparian (streamside) sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10470,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}