What is happening with the reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone?
Wyoming Game and Fish Department http://gf.state.wy.us/ Gauss Law states that no two organisms can occupy the same ecological niche without excluding the other, but what happens when man gets involved with nature and tries to introduce a species where it doesnt belong which in turn provides a second organism to fill the same niche as the first? The results of human intervention have often been disastrous for the organism that were supposedly helping. Humans often times do not understand the complexity of the implications that are caused directly through our intervention. In 1974, the gray wolf was listed on the Endangered Species List, and in an effort to reestablish their populations, wolves were re-introduced into Yellowstone National Park, affecting Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho (Wyoming Wolf Management Plan, 2003). Between 1995 and 1996 thirty one wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone and thirty five wolves into central Idaho. The wolf numbers exploded, leaving these western stat
