[PCA] NEWS: Can wolves restore an ecosystem?

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Thu Feb 5 22:03:11 CST 2009


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008667916_wolves25.html

Can wolves restore an ecosystem?
Wolves last roamed the Olympic Peninsula nearly a century ago. A 
controversial new study argues the absence of these predators has led to 
dramatic and often destructive shifts in the area's ecology.
By Sandi Doughton
Seattle Times science reporter

THE HOH RAIN FOREST -- No trace remains of the wolves whose howls 
ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula.

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