https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru Protect the Wolves? en-us 2018-02-01 20:42:04 UTC 2018-03-09 20:51:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/227680422 I think that wolves shouldn't be controlled because the gray wolf was almost hunted to extinction and now only cover 15% of the territory that they once did. Wolves also are being removed from the endangered species list and unlike other animals, they're removal didn't follow any of the guidelines made by the ESA. Wolves keep the deer population down and stop the tragedy of the commons from happening in the wild. If the wolves are removed then the tragedy of the commons will happen to the park. this means all of the parks herbivores would die and yellow stone could lose some major business. In the areas around yellow stone they earn $680.3 billion dollars. ]]> 2018-02-02 21:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/227680422 binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/227681128 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14zWqt-EUOJ0dm4IjjL_k7_MRw78Ks_qniaJ7jdgHWSI/edit#slide=id.g2c5f0cc202_0_5]]> 2018-02-02 21:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/227681128 binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/231287583   In the bear necessities, when there was a lot of bears it was harder to get food and people had to steal others food just to survive. at the end of those days several bears died. the carrying capacity of that ecosystem stayed mostly the same but with more consumers means more competition. In the coral reef gizmo when snapper, angelfish, and parrot fish died off with no food the groupers also began to die off. everything depends on something else in an ecosystem and if that thing dies off every organism is affected. this is caused by humans who over fish, pollute, or introduce a invasive species. ]]> 2018-02-13 20:43:24 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/231287583 binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/233475209    In the graph it shows that when the wolves were coming back that the elk declined dramatically. The articles said when the elk dropped dramatically that beaver and willow populations rose. Apparently the elk had been eating all of the young willows giving the beavers nothing to eat in the winter. But when the wolves came and killed off the deer the beaver and willow populations bloomed. The moose were not part of this web but their populations declined because of loss of habitat, disease, and parasites.]]> 2018-02-20 19:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/233475209 binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/234465211   I think that the elk need the wolves to survive. In the graph it showed that when the wolves were introduced the death by starvation dropped from 500 to zero. this happens because when there are a lot of deer they eat all of there food and starve to death. this leaves their predators with nothing to eat and so it kills them. with them gone the whole ecosystem comes crashing down.]]> 2018-02-22 20:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/234465211 binghamd1 https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/239899061    The wolves affect the population of the elk because they mainly eat elk. In the populations presentation it was discovered that, "Researchers have also determined that wolves, in the recent absence of hard winters, are now the primary reason for elk mortality." the wolves are hunting the elk. When the wolves started to hunt the elk they, " the elk pushed the limits of Yellowstone's carrying capacity, and they didn't move around much in the winter-browsing heavily on young willow, aspen and cottonwood plants. " The elk had been over grazing the willow killing them off. when the wolves came back and started to kill the elk, the elk didn't have time to graze on the young trees. So with no elk grazing on them their populations began to grow.]]> 2018-03-08 20:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/binghamd1/7tj6bb0jd6ru/wish/239899061