A Harmonious Living: Whitebark Pine and Clark's Nutcrackers
“Clark’s Nutcracker is a keystone species, whitebark pine is a keystone species, and they’re both in a key mutualism in this ecosystem,” she says. Keystone species are plants or animals that are so critical to an ecosystem that the landscape would dramatically change without them. In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, nutcrackers rely on whitebark pines as a crucial food source, the pines rely on nutcrackers to disperse and plant their seeds, and more than 100 other species o
Wolverine Killed Near Lost Trail Pass
An adult female wolverine was killed in a vehicle collision on US 93 approximately 4 highway miles south of Lost Trail Pass, on 6 December 2014 at 5:00 am. The driver retrieved the carcass and turned it over to Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He was driving in the northbound lane of US 93 about 1.5 miles north of Moose Creek Estates and saw an animal he thought was a skunk in the center of the road. He swerved to miss the animal, but clipped it with his right rear wheel. T
