‘Moving forward’: New leader for Yellowstone Wolf Project talks research goals, challenges
From Bozeman Daily Chronicle:
When Daniel Stahler started work in Yellowstone National Park in 1997, it wasn’t clear how the ambitious push to restore wolves to their native habitat would go.
As a recently-graduated wildlife biologist in his 20s, Stahler volunteered to help with the novel Yellowstone Wolf project. He fed wolves meat in their pens as they waited to be released into the park — the first step in reacclimating wolves to the landscape and restoring the keystone predator’s population from near extinction.
“I kind of got my foot in the door at the very early stages,” Stahler said in an interview. “And essentially, I never left.”
