Longtime visitors know I’ve written a lot about wolves in the western U.S., their reintroduction, the removal of their endangered status, and their slaughter by western hunters and ranchers.
And some of you may recall that back in 2010 I wrote about how their return to Yellowstone meant an increase in wetlands in the park. The return of the wolves actually changed the physical characteristics of the park, to the benefit of all.
Now comes this beautiful video telling the same story — and so much better than I. (My only quibble is the narrator calling the elk “deer.”) Thanks to M.R. Stringer for finding it.
(More about wolves on Pied Type)
Wow PT, what a wonderful video!!!! 😀
I wish wonderful videos were enough to call off the hunters and ranchers so hellbent on exterminating every wolf they can find.
Me too my friend, and on so many issues beyond this one as well!
BTW PT, I got an email saying someone had “Liked” my comment. I don’t see any comment Like buttons!
Did it say the Like was on Pied Type? I turned the Comment Likes off the day after I turned them on.
Yep. It was by someone with the name “channelglobalnews”.
I didn’t approve their brief comment because I doubt anyone legitimate from an Indonesian website would be making comments on my little English language blog. But they can still click on my Like buttons. Yet another reason not to activate the Like buttons.
Yeah, I was too suspicious to even try the links in the email. Still, how’d they click a Like that wasn’t there?!?!
I assume they clicked it before I turned the Likes off. Don’t remember now when that was. And then there’s the dateline thing between here and there too …
We are lucky enough to have a very healthy wolf population in Minnesota.
And lucky enough to have a populace intelligent enough to appreciate them.
Who would have thunk – Wolves as environmentalists!
Thanks for the update, sending on to my friends
Oh thank you. The word needs to be spread as widely as possible — again and again.
Except that it was actually sent to her. She’s well renowned for actually discovering very little, alas ! 🙂
Marvelous video. I’ve sent it on, too…. but preaching to the choir I’m afraid!
Yes, I’m afraid so.
What a great story, and so beautifully told too. Thanks.
As to the nomenclature issue about deer and elk, I found this from Wikipedia, emphasis supplied:
The narrator sounded British (?), so that may explain it. Still, I’d have assumed the script was written by Americans familiar with Yellowstone and accustomed to distinguishing elk, moose, and deer.