Wolves seen as bogeymen of the ecological landscape, has been the animal’s fate for a century or more, but much of what people say about them is based on myth, not fact.
That was a central theme of a “Wolf Populations in Yellowstone National Park” presentation at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Oct. 3 by Doug Smith, the man who presided over the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone National Park nearly 25 years ago.
Smith, a senior wildlife biologist in Yellowstone, is the Wolf Man, one of the world’s leading experts on one of the world’s most controversial mammals.
Love them or hate them – and wolves do provoke such deep-seated emotions – Smith explained how they are about the most misunderstood animals on the planet.
“Codyites are passionate about wolves,” Smith said in his Draper Museum of Natural History talk to an…
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