The wolves in Yellowstone are hard to find. They have a very interesting history where the population of the wolves was extinguished. In 1805, the first human came to yellowstone and that started the development of yellowstone national park and the killing of the wolves. By 1926 all of the wolves in yellowstone had been killed. Slowly, scientist saw the impact of the wolves and decided to try to re-introduce the wolves back into the ecosystem. The population today is inclining but the wolves are still hard to spot.
It’s a humid, dismal day in yellowstone. The air is mixed with the …show more content…
It was really busy earlier in the day but it had poured a couple hours earlier and that made a lot of the tourist to head back to their campground. It was still filled with people waiting to see the iconic Old Faithful and we had to work our way through to go see some of the other geothermal. We were in the back by one of the geysers on our way to morning glory pool when a family next to us pointed out an animal in the river. It was a wolf for sure because of its larger size than a coyote and had a thick pelt with its yellowish black color to it and smaller ears. It was about 50 yards away and as visible as possible. It was walking through the river and around the geyser that we were looking at and then turned towards us and started across the boardwalk and to the other side and back into the woods. I was in disbelief at how close it had came to us and overjoyed at being able to see a wolf up close and in person. The wolf was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen in the