I recall seeing my first wolf in Yellowstone in 1998.

I haven't been there in a long time, and have never seen a wolf. What a sight that must have been.

Oops about the Elk for the Deer!

1998 was the last time we were out there because we move to Ohio in 2000. It is too long to drive and back in a week.

Now we our children have grown and keep us busy visiting them on vacation. One day, we will get back there, I just hope the ranchers don't get their way and destroy the wolves again.

Between that and the bison, the ranchers would kill them all.

I wish they could see this. Maybe it would help them be less myopic and less destructive towards these magnificent animals.

in fact, there are ranchers all over the country (world, actually) that practice livestock management that mimics the same interaction of herding herbivores and pack-hunting predators to rejuvenate riparian systems and improve soils. some welcome those same predators to help with the work.

Alan Savory pioneered this thinking more than 30 years ago.

It goes without saying, I hope, that people cannot and should not be thrown into stereotypes.

What we have here is a failure to communicate, but the consequences in this case are not fatal.

To a Brit, an "elk" is what we Yanks call a moose.

There's nothing more complicated than ecology. This video makes it so easy that a child could understand it.

This is a wonderful example of just how fascinating it can be.

I hadn't heard all of this, but I had hear that because of the return of the wolf, the aspens grew along-side the streams, which cooled the streams and the trout returned.

Pretty cool how all this is connected.

It really does seem that everything is connected...

our land in northern Minnesota. I saw two of them once and we have had photos on our trail cams of five different wolves. A couple of wolves went after our neighbor's dogs a couple of years ago. The funny thing is, the tiny little mutt was apparently less afraid of the wolves than was the 100 pound dog. The neighbor shouted at the wolves and they took off.

Wolves don't like humans, thank goodness.

They are smart enough to gather close to their shelter at night.