Previous research claimed the wolves were helping to stop elk from eating aspen trees but a new study suggests this may not be the case.
Knots peer out from the bark of these North American aspen trees.
The groves around the lake is a a depth of diverse tints and the land a carpet of golden flowers. The most stunning colors, nevertheless, are those of the yellowing grass, the willow and aspen trees.
“ I like aspen trees,” he remarks over coffee in a cozy log restaurant near a cabin just outside Yellowstone where he stays during field research.
Within this small patch of aspen trees, the floor was littered with leaves and it caught my eye.
It includes some of the world's largest stands of fast-growing aspen trees, which can gain 5 feet (1.5 meters) in a year.
While traveling to a newly logged area to burn slash piles I wanted to take a picture of the forest floor. The trees had been thinned to increase aspen tree regeneration.
The trees had been thinned to increase aspen tree regeneration.
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