Elk

attempts made by the national park. Elk and bison were seen as the easiest and safest animal to artificially increase the population of. While introducing the wildlife policies and priorities professor Parr mentions, “the most important pro-elk policy was to eliminate the bad animals that eat elk” (II-C-1.4). This was the hunting and eliminating process of mountain lions, coyotes, and wolves, but the only animal they succeeded in eliminating was the wolf. Of course, the elk population blew up…

Eco-villages: A Part of the New Elk Grove? Imagine yourself in a town that looks somewhat like a fairy tale: houses float from trees, children are able to roam free of mundane fear, neighborhoods are surrounded by nature, and in this town all living arrangements coincide with nature. The residents of this town work with nature not against it, for their own selfish desires. In return, they receive the benefits of being surrounded by nature. These types of towns are in fact real, and have a name,…

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Imagine walking out of your house and you are face to face with a wolf. Nothing else matters as you gaze into its strange and peculiar eyes. For some this may seem like a fantasy, but for others, this is everyday of their lives. There is a huge debate whether wolves should be alowed to live and roam where they used to live before they were taken away. Some people believe that these wolves will only bring more chaos with them. But others say that these wolves can make our lives a more eutopian…

Family - Cervidae Genus - Cervus Species- canadensis Cervus canadensis (Elk) is one of the largest species within the Cervidae family (deer), and is also considered one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia based upon mass and size. The word “Elk” comes from two languages: Old English - elh, and German - elch; Both words mean “Moose”, because the genus Cervus (Elk) was mistaken for the genus Alces (moose) due to similar anatomical structures (Harper,…

In “Scared to Death”, author, Ed Yong, describes the relationship of grey wolves and elk in Yellowstone National Park. Studies conducted by John Laundre, an ecologist at the State University of New York at Oswego, reveal what they call, “a landscape of fear”. Laundre explains this term by saying, “in predator-prey relationships it’s not the actual killing that has the most influence on prey behavior- it’s living in constant fear”. Over the course of the text, Yong tries to explain how, like…

nights on the way. Once we got there it wasn’t hard to sleep even though my grandparents snore like a freight train, for some reason I always sleep good in hotels. When we got to colorado we stayed in a condo, there was a lot of snow and the occasional elk. When we got there one…

killed to the point where wolves no longer existed in the park. After their removal, many other species were affected because they were the keystone species. These species include the grizzly bear population, the pronghorn antelope population, the elk…

stronger case for the need for wolf protection is the article written by Ed Young entitled “Scared to Death.” In “Scared to Death,” Ed Young explores a different approach to wolf conservation by explaining the psychological effects the wolf has on the elk population (14 Young). He also goes on to state in…

when overly zealous protection by park managers allowed elk and bison populations to explode. Each winter, thousands of elk fled the park to be shot by hunters at the boundary at a place known by 1910 as the "Firing line." Desperate authorities even built a fence in a vain attempt to keep some animals in the park and sent wranglers to fetch errant bison apparently headed for Seattle. By the 1930s, biologists knew that overly abundant elk and bison were severely…