Who's afraid of the big, bad… elk?

November 20, 2005
Source: National Wildlife Federation
Original story — link verified on November 20, 2005
By Hannah Schardt

Afte a 1950s rabies scare, park wardens at Canada’s Banff National Park started shooting gray wolves on sight. By the 1960s, Banff’s wolves were gone. Not coincidentally, that’s around the time that elk, once a main source of food for the wolves, started to take over.

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