This
is a new feature for my blog, a means of presenting interesting videos I come
across. They probably won’t be very
literary, but such is the nature of videos.
I’ve
mentioned a number of times how I love wolves, and I even posted a photo essay a
few months ago on my trip to a wolf sanctuary.
This first posted “Cool Video” shows the effects of re-introducing
wolves back to Yellowstone Park. I don’t
remember what year my wife and I vacationed at Yellowstone, but it had to be
shortly after 1995 when wolves started being re-introduced. You can read about it here and here. I remember on the trip trying to locate the
one wolf pack there. We never found
it. Wolves are extremely shy.
I
came across this video on the ecological impact of re-introducing wolves to Yellowstone. I hope you enjoy it, and you see just how
beautiful Yellowstone Park is. The
narrator keeps saying how wolves kept the deer population down, but the video
shows elk not deer. The reality is
wolves probably kept both populations down, but there’s a disconnect between
the narrator and the film, and it comes across as the narrator being a bit
obtuse. Still it’s an excellent and
educational video.
If
you’ve never been to Yellowstone national Park, I highly recommend it if you
enjoy the outdoors.
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