It was clear to Doug Smith, retired lead of the Yellowstone Wolf Project, that the park’s porous boundaries would be an issue almost immediately after wolves were reintroduced in 1995.

Sep. 6—A longtime biologist is taking the helm of Yellowstone National Park's wolf research and monitoring efforts. Yellowstone National Park announced last week that Dan Stahler has been selected to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On four separate occasions, Wolf 907F seized power as the alpha female leader of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National ...

For the first time in 24 years Yellowstone National Park’s wolf project staff found no evidence in 2018 of wolves killing each other. That’s unusual since such wolf-on-wolf deaths are the leading ...

Editor’s note: This is the third installment of Howl, a five-part written series and podcast season produced in partnership between the Idaho Capital Sun, States Newsroom and Boise State Public Radio.

Smith helped bring them back to the park and was in charge of Yellowstone’s wolf project for nearly 30 years until he retired in 2022. “Yellowstone is a very different place, with and without wolves,” ...