Gray wolves and cougars are not only iconic to the Yellowstone National Park landscape, but they also play important roles in the overall health of the ecosystem. With both being apex predators, ...

Learn more about why the story of how wolves saved Yellowstone National Park’s aspens is more complicated — and more instructional — than it appears.

A Yellowstone wolf (Courtesy NPS/Jacob W. Frank) Editor’s note: WyoFile partnered with Mountain Journal to produce this story. If not for a series of tones broadcasting her location, no one would’ve ...

Learn how ravens in Yellowstone National Park use spatial memory and navigation to locate wolf kills across the landscape without following wolves.

Thirty years ago, park rangers reintroduced grey wolves into Yellowstone National Park. They wanted to restore the ecosystem and get the elk population, which had decimated the plant community, in ...

When wolves are on the hunt, a kill rarely goes unnoticed for long. In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the ...

A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% ...