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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNReintroduced Wolves Are Helping Baby Aspen Trees Flourish in Northern Yellowstone for the First Time in 80 Years, Study Suggests
The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be keeping the local population of plant-eating elk in check, ...
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Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years
At their peak population, an estimated 18,000 elk ranged across the park, chomping on grasses and shrubs as well as the leaves, twigs and bark of trees like quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... a ...
Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 stems connected by a root system that sprawls about 43 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.
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