Yellowstone National Park has recently published three reports from 2018 online about bear management, wolves, and birds. Each of the reports focuses largely on the health of these wildlife populations. Topics from the Bear Management Program Annual Report include bear sightings, management of roadside bear viewing, bear mortalities, bear-human conflicts, bear-proof food storage locker installation and more. Yellowstone’s Bear Biologist Kerry Gunther says while there were few bear-human conflicts inside of the park in 2018, managing visitors that stopped to view and photograph bears foraging in roadside meadows and creating bear jams was a considerable management challenge. Topics from the Bird Project Annual Report include monitoring of raptors, wetland birds, songbirds and near-passerine, fall migration, raven movements, and noteworthy and rare bird sightings. Topics from the Wolf Project Annual Report include pup survival, wolf pack summaries, and using radio collars to study wolves. Yellowstone Wolf Project leader Doug Smith says biologists noted a drop in pup numbers during 2018, however there were no intra-species wolf killings, which is usually the reason for the most wolf mortality.
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