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Should the population of wolves in the Yellow Stone Park be controlled or not?

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Should the population of wolves in the Yellow Stone Park be controlled or not?

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I think the wolves population should not be controlled because if you do that then every species they could could be come overpopulated then you would need to cut down the population on the other animals.

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"Gray wolves were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1974, paving the way for their reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995. Since their reintroduction, the question of the presence of wolves in the American West has been the subject of an ongoing battle, a tug-of-war of between science and politics."

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The wolves are an endangered species and killing them is not doing anything and people are still killing making them an even more endangered species. I still think the population should not be controlled because you're just killing animals that didn't do anything, and have no reason to die. People are debating wither or not to keep lowing down the population and they're on the verge of deciding to not kill the wolves anymore.

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Lately we have been doing some fun labs one was we were each bears and we had to gather enough food and water for ourselves to live. We also did a coral lab today (2/8/18).

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Animals are important's to our environment as we saw in the coral reef lab when we let the Red Lion fish be non-population controlled it ate all the coral and most of the fish died because they had no where to live.

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Also as we saw from a moose video flea was killing a whole moose, draining all of the blood from it. Making the moose a danger to humans making it a danger to the environment. When you hunt lets be honest you don't want a flea in your food when you eat a moose

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Yes, we need animals because a lot of people rely on animals for food, fur, and some just beauty.
Lets talk about carrying capacity the environment can support bears and wolves as we learned today(2/13/18) So now do we have a purpose to keep wolves in Yellow Stone? The carrying capacity can only hold so many bears and so many wolves I think that the population of bears could probably be around 4-8 bears as we learned for the bear necessities(2/8/18) and the wolves population could probably be around 10-17 also learned from bear necessities (2/8/18) the reason bears are less than wolves is because wolves don't eat as much as bears do in this case.

We're still on the topic of should animals population be controlled? Some should and some shouldn't for example as we could see the Red Lionfish should however the wolves population should not.

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As we saw from the video today(2/8/17) we learned about the python control group and they are doing a very bad job at controlling the fox and the rabbit population they controlling it too much as in eat too many. The python control group is doing a good job catching them but they need to hurry before all those small animals go extinct.

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In the power point we looked at today(2/13/18) we asked some questions to Yellow Stone Park and we found out that the wolves help the bears by what they don't eat the bears clean up after them and eat the rest of the animal that they didn't eat. As we all know about prey and predator population the prey is lowering because the bears and the wolves both eat them but they are saving some by bears eating after the wolves. There isn't any competition between the wolves and the bears they're either sharing or they aren't but they aren't fighting over food that we know of.

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As we learned form the gizmo(2/16/18) the ecosystem can effect the population in in that case the fish population declined from global warming and climate change with is killing some of the coral that is some of the fishes home killing the fishes along with it. When we tested the red lion fish 20 years in advance all of the coral was there was only lion fish and sea turtles, there were no fish left.

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The elk population is going down because of "predator recovery, hunters, droughts, and a disease called Brucellosis that now affects 30% of Elk in Yellowstone".

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The beavers and the willows population has declined because the "Moose and Elk population grew and had to compete with the beavers for food so some of the beavers died off".

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The wolves population and other animals are decreased by "Bears, coyotes, ravens, bugs, and other wolves benefit from wolves being killed due to disease"

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As the presentation from today(2/20/17) the animals that are dying from diseases are "predator recovery, hunters, droughts, and a disease called Brucellosis that now affects 30% of Elk in Yellowstone" "Bears, coyotes, ravens, bugs, and other wolves benefit from wolves being killed due to disease" also they are dying because of other animals population getting to big "Moose and Elk population grew and had to compete with the beavers for food so some of the beavers died off" The population of these animals are going down for different reasons such as diseases, being over populated by other animals. Animals are dying mostly because of diseases however we can't take them captive all we can do is catch them and vaccinate them and hope that they live or they can fight the disease.

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The death of predators eating prey is better because they don’t die slowly and they might die and then get a disease then the predators would also get the disease and then the whole park would have a disease making all of the animals dangerous. One animal can determine a nature balance by making sure it has enough food to feed all of the animals and make sure it doesn’t have any diseases or bad predators that will affect them. The predators don’t just prey on the old and sick they normally prey in the slower or the younger mostly because they are slower. When we watched “She Wolf” she preyed on baby animal because it was slower then she got chase by the dad who was almost as fast as her. The balance of nature is the deer would do worse without the wolves then the wolves would not have eat the deer to keep the population controlled. 

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The death of predators eating prey is better because they don’t die slowly and they might die and then get a disease then the predators would also get the disease and then the whole park would have a disease making all of the animals dangerous. One animal can determine a nature balance by making sure it has enough food to feed all of the animals and make sure it doesn’t have any diseases or bad predators that will affect them. The predators don’t just prey on the old and sick they normally prey in the slower or the younger mostly because they are slower. When we watched “She Wolf” she preyed on baby animal because it was slower then she got chase by the dad who was almost as fast as her. The balance of nature is the deer would do worse without the wolves then the wolves would not have eat the deer to keep the population controlled. 

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The moose's population was declining by weather and how the weather is changing,also fleas are sucking all of the blood out of the moose. They were also declined because wolves were eating them.

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If you look at the graph above you will see that when the wolves population increases the other populations decrease. I will give you a chain here, the elk eat the willows then the wolves eat the elk. There is another way to look at it, if the wolves eat all of the elk then the willows could over populate because none of the elk would be eating them because they're all eaten.