Wolves of Isle Royale make a comeback! 2022

You're doing a really important thing, teaching people about all this will help future generation not make the same mistakes 🙂 Keep up the good work! ✌️

As someone who has been to Isle Royale backpacking and will return every chance i get and had the fortune opportunity to experience it's beauty and the opportunity to encounter a moose on the greenstone ridge and see piles of wolf skate. I fully support maintaining and boosting a wolf population when needed to keep the moose from over browsing the island. I feel that the people need to be the stewards of the land doing everything in their power to conserve the natural balance and not let the pendulum swing to far either way.

It's interesting to hear how the moose population fell so drastically from depredation. I suppose this demonstrates how heavily habitats can rely on interconnectedness to restore the ecosystem after a shift from equilibrium. (I've been trying to learn the basics of it recently, my brain melted slightly) Good to see you're still creating!

Love the video and agree to save the wolf population. ❤

As long as there are moose on the island there needs to be wolves, the moose will eat themselves out of house and home ,destroying the forest in the meantime. Then they all starve and die from disease ,we're already seeing that. 🦌🐺👍

Great Video! Really appreciate your unbiased approach here and raising the deep question of if we should or shouldn’t intervene. It should not be a forgone conclusion. Most media comes at this very biased with the perception of “of course we should save these magnificent animals”. That’s not how science should work, we have to ask these tough questions and give credible consideration to all alternatives. Having said that, my uninformed two cents (I’m not a wolf biologist but we are all entitled to our opinions) I feel we should try to let nature take its course to some degree but potentially occasionally exchange a few wolves with the mainland. By exchanging (not adding) you are kind of allowing the population dynamics to take their course but also partially offsetting the impacts of less frequent ice bridges on genetic diversity. There may of course be other considerations, i.e. I’m not sure how the wolf social structure would welcome new, unfamiliar members. This, and all conservation decisions need to consider science, policy and public impacts if we want truly sustainable conservation.

I don't think that this is a difficult choice at all. The wolves of Isle Royale are one of the two most well-known wolf packs in America, the other's being the Yellowstone pack, of course. Their very existence spurs an interest in and support for wildlife conservation in America. Furthermore, regularly introducing individual wolves into the Isle Royale population would eliminate the risks of a genetic bottleneck and interbreeding. Maintaining the wolf pack--or now packs--on Isle Royale is not a practical problem: 'Tis an ideological problem. The people who want to not intervene and who would have no problem with the wolf pack's perishing remind me of the ideologues and ecological extremists who opposed taking the California Condor into captivity for breeding and reintroduction purposes with the argument that these magnificent birds should be allowed to die out naturally. Fortunately, they did not win out, and today one can go to the Grand Canyon in Arizona and see California Condors' soaring in the skies over the canyon.

need the wolves for the park to prosper.. good work

Save the wolves!!! ❤!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🐺🐺🐺 (from 8 yo Cora & 6 yo JoJo Bradley and their Dad!)

This is a great video yellowstone is a favourite rewilding project of mine and I can’t wait till wolves, lynx and more genetically diverse Eurasian wildcats are reintroduced here to the UK without them the bisan and deer and Eurasian’s elk will over populate and return to destroying saplings and I’m already worried about the deer population has been culled too much cause I haven’t seen deer where I used to see them in a long time and with culling there is no way of knowing how much is killed and how much is necessary plus it’s not humane to kill them for selling there meat cause that’s for profit

Save the wolves not send them to their death. It really seems like the wolves will suffer on the island.

The real solution to the declining animal populations is land conservation + restoration + corridors. Then Isle Royale won't be necessary. I see the island as a really great animal sanctuary, serving its purpose at this stage in our ecological stewardship history.