https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp By: Jackson Robbe en-us 2018-02-02 21:09:46 UTC 2018-03-15 23:54:17 UTC hello@padlet.com robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232114673 https://defenders.org/places-for-wolves/ecological-role-wolves]]> 2018-02-15 19:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232114673 robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232114924 In Yellowstone the bear and wolf encounters are rare. This is because the bears find the carcass that the wolfs killed and scavenge of of them so they are doing the hard work. Wolf hunting happens in Areas all over the US especially around the Yellowstone park and outside of it. Many of the wolves killed outside of Yellowstone are researched from the park. Populations in Yellowstone are very hard to control this is because of the money involved to protect population. Populations change in a matter of time if something disappears than it can mess up the whole ecosystem in Yellowstone and other habitats and parks. ]]> 2018-02-15 19:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232114924 robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232151819 The wolfs are not all bad for the ecosystem especially in the Yellowstone park. The wolves where reintroduced in the 1950's and killed most of the elk and deer population. but since the wolves where absent for 70 years the consumer population was too high. Causing the environment and the plants to be almost erased from the park. Since the wolves limited the population lots of other populations like beavers and birds began to rise. So in conclusion the wolfs balanced the ecosystem. That shows without the predator the ecosystem becomes unbalanced.  ]]> 2018-02-15 20:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/232151819 robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/234458752 I think that the wolf population should be controlled because by killing the wolf population might Help the ecosystem or mess it up. But I feel that in some places such as endangered and regulated areas the animals cant be hunted. Based on the documentary the documented wolf pack was struggling to find food because of the wolf population is to large.  Having the right to hunt the wolves has regulations and limits on how many you can kill and not kill to many. 1. The wolf population can be high in many areas causing prey and other consumers species to disappear.
2. Killing the wolves in some areas might help keep cattle an livestock from disappearing.
3. By having these hunting privileges many people can benefit and have fun hunting the animals for the some that like to hunt.]]> 2018-02-22 19:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/234458752 robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/234912638 I think that it is right for both a predator to kill prey and for the prey to starve  because they are both the law of nature. But if one population is decreased to much it can fall to extinction these are examples of limiting factors. Many of the predators target the sick or weak prey because it is an easy meal and who dosent want easy meal. If the wolves where token out of the ecosystem they would over populate causing many things like willows and plant to die because of the big elk population.]]> 2018-02-23 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/234912638 robbej https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/242585716 The wolves effect the moose because they mainly eat elk and moose. In the populations page there was an example, "Researchers have also determined that wolves, in the recent absence of hard winters, are now the primary reason for elk mortality". It has 
also been discovered that in the hard winters and long winters the elk start to feed on the willows and aspen. Causing the willows and aspen to die because of the grassing elk. And when the wolves population rises the started to kill the elk making the population fall in effect helping the willow and aspen to rise again giving food for beavers and other animal species.]]> 2018-03-15 20:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/robbej/k6a3366qdsdp/wish/242585716