Declining fortunes of Yellowstone’s migratory elk

Declining fortunes of Yellowstone’s migratory elk

This press release from Ecology nicely summarizes our recent Ecology paper in a forum discussing the fate of Yellowstone’s migratory elk. “I think Middleton has an intriguing idea, and it might be what’s happening. We offer another hypothesis that also fits the...
Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf

Why the Beaver Should Thank the Wolf

From the NY Times, a great op-ed piece connecting our work on sea otters with wolves and elk in Yellowstone!  Couldn’t be more perfect.  Notice the little Sea Otter poking his head out of the reads below the elk. Scientists call this sequence of impacts down the...