Past news articles on the wildlife of Yellowstone National Park and other updates.




Druid Female #42 Dead 2/3/04

Druid Female #42 Dead 2/3/04

Famous Druid Pack Female Found Dead 2/3/04 Information courtesy: Tonya Matthews, Ralph Maughan, and Rick McIntyre Druid Female #42F, the alpha female of the Druid Peak Pack has been discovered dead. Yellowstone Park wolf biologist Dan Stahler located #42’s...
Public Needs Accounting Of Grizzly Efforts

Public Needs Accounting Of Grizzly Efforts

Bozeman Chronicle*Opinion By Todd Wilkinson How many grizzly bears are alive today in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem? Between 400 and 600, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Many more than in the mid 1980s. Enough to soon move forward with taking the...
Druid Alpha Male, #21 Missing, Found Dead

Druid Alpha Male, #21 Missing, Found Dead

Druid Alpha Male #21 Missing, Feared Dead No. 21M, the alpha male with the Druid Pack came up missing earlier this summer. His radio collar had not worked in quite some time, so it was unknown if he had died or was just traveling at night. It appears that #253M, the...
Female #217 Found Dead, 1/23/04

Female #217 Found Dead, 1/23/04

On January 11, 2004 the collar from #217F began transmitting a mortality signal. Later that day (?) her bloody carcass was located at the bottom of a granite cliff near Buffalo Fork. The remainder of her pack, the Slough Creek pack were found feeding at an elk carcass...