Learn more about the canine distemper outbreak that could have reduced Yellowstone wolf pup populations to a historic low.

A flare up of a disease that’s especially lethal to wolf pups took a toll on Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park wolf numbers in 2025, reducing biologists’ counts to a level last seen when wolves ...

Few animals symbolize wild interconnectedness quite like wolves, whose return helped reveal just how tightly ecosystems are ...

Over the last three decades, Yellowstone National Park has undergone an ecological cascade. As elk numbers fell, aspen and willow trees thrived. This, in turn, allowed beaver numbers to increase, ...

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on whether the restoration of wolves has impacted the ecosystem. The idea is ...

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Editor’s note: This story first appeared in Mountain Journal. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Around Crystal Creek, where the road bridges the Lamar River at the fringe of Yellowstone National Park’s ...

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones. The fall from a wall that cracked a construction worker’s skull. That whitewater canoe trip when your friend’s finger was smashed between the ...

Despite distemper-driven decline, most remaining canines now have strong antibodies and resistance — and state biologists are ...