Past wolf reintroduction programs, particularly the grey wolf restorative program in Yellowstone National Park, have demonstrated the inadvertent and beneficial effects of wolf reintroduction to the environment they’re in. The most noticeable benefit arises from the recovery of plant species that were used as a source of food for elk and deer.  Jennifer C. Holland, from…

Despite being native to North Carolina, the red wolves restoration initiative and the benefits that the program has fostered shares a strong resemblance to the previous work done on Yellowstone’s gray wolf population. The northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population, which was dwindling in the 1970s, was listed as an endangered species in the late…