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Yellowstone Park Wolves. Photo by Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone Park Wolves
Yellowstone National Park created a plan for dealing with habituated wolves in 2003, after several years of incidents involving wolves showing no fear of humans, and actually approaching humans.
Dealing with habituated wolves
by Cat Urbigkit, Pinedale Online!
February 11, 2009

Did you know that Yellowstone National Park has a written plan in place for dealing with habituated wolves? The plan was written in 2003, after several years of incidents involving wolves showing no fear of humans, and actually approaching humans.

According to the YNP plan, "Our first response to a report of a habituated or unafraid wolf would be to warn and educate the public, increase our monitoring intensity, and visit the site where problems were reported. This would primarily be to gather more data, allowing formulation of future responses if necessary. If the problem continues we would negatively condition the animal with cracker shells, bean bag rounds, or rubber bullets, all proven to be non-injurious deterrents. If hazing fails, then the final step would be wolf removal."

For more information on this topic, click on YNP's "Management of Habituated Wolves in Yellowstone National Park' document.



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