Wolf Monitoring and Research in Denali National Park and Preserve and Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve
Borg B , Sorum M , Klauder K , Bywater N. Wolf Monitoring and Research in Denali National Park and Preserve and Yukon - Charley Rivers National Preserve. 1926. National Park Service
Wolves (Canis lupus), are one of six keystone large mammal species in interior Alaska and have been the focus of decades of research in Alaska. Accounts of wolf research in Denali date back to the early 1900s and continuous monitoring projects for wolves began in Denali in 1986 and in Yukon-Charley in 1993. Wolves specifically identified in the enabling legislation and management objectives of these parks. Wolves are good indicators of long-term habitat change within ecosystems because they depend on healthy populations of large ungulate prey (such as moose and caribou), which in turn respond to vegetation, weather, and other habitat patterns across the entire landscape. As a top predator, wolves may play a key role in influencing prey populations, and as a result may influence vegetation patterns and ungulate harvest by humans on NPS parks and preserves in Alaska. Wolves are of great importance to park visitors because of the unique opportunities to view wolves in Alaska’s parks. Information on wolf populations will allow managers to protect wolves in a variety of ways. Examples include locating and isolating active dens from disturbance; determining whether wolves are being impacted by activities (such as wolf control) outside park boundaries; and evaluating the long-term changes in Alaska populations using genetic data gathered during radio collaring.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Borg, Bridget; Sorum, Mathew; Klauder, Kaija; Bywater, Nicklas
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CAKN , DENA , YUCH
- Keywords
- Alaska, Canis lupus, Charley, Denali, Mammal, National Park, Population, Predator, Prey, Ungulate, Wolf, Wolves, Yukon
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals
Program
Products
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- 2022 Annual Wolf Report
- Wolves and human-caused mortality — A reply to Cassidy et al.
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- Wolves and human-caused mortality — A reply to Cassidy et al.
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- Denali NPP Wolf Research Review Panel
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- The Denali Park Road Experience: Indicators and Standards of Quality
- Vital signs monitoring of wolf (Canis Lupus) distribution and abundance in Denali National Park and Preserve, Central Alaska Network: 2013–2015 report
- Wolf Report: Denali National Park and Preserve 2020
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- Patterns and processes of pathogen exposure in gray wolves across North America
- Annual Report 2019
- Wolf Report: Denali National Park and Preserve 2018
- 2017 Annual Wolf Report
- Wolf Report: Denali National Park and Preserve 2017
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- Wolf Report: Denali National Park and Preserve 2016
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- Vital signs monitoring of wolf (Canis lupus) distribution and abundance in Denali National Park and Preserve, Central Alaska Network: 2011 report
- Annual Report on Vital Signs Monitoring Of Wolf (Canis lupus) Distribution and Abundance in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Central Alaska Network: 2011 Report
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- Annual report on vital signs monitoring of wolf (Canis lupus) distribution and abundance in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Central Alaska Network: 2009 report
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- Annual report on vital signs monitoring of wolf (Canis lupus) distribution and abundance in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, Central Alaska Network: 2008 report
- Where Have the Wolves Gone? Wolf Monitoring in the Central Alaska Network: Yukon-Charley Rivers
- Wolf-Human Conflict Management Plan
- Annual Report on Vital Signs Monitoring of Distribution and Abundance of Wolves in Yukon-Charley Rivers
- ANNUAL REPORT ON VITAL SIGNS MONITORING OF DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF WOLVES IN DENALI NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE
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- 2021 Annual Wolf Report
- Genetic Connectivity in a Cooperatively Breeding Carnivore Between Two Protected Areas
- 2023 Annual Wolf Report
- 2024 Annual Wolf Report