Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: Beautiful Nature of Yellowstone National Park. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. In this park, wolves prey on a variety of species particularly the elk of the Yellowstone Park but will in some cases pursue deer, sheep, bear and other animals (Philips et al, 1996).

Wolves in the Northern Rockies have been a conservation success since 1995. The original Yellowstone wolves, wolves in Northern Idaho and other 20 wolves released in the Northern Rockies in 1996 have tremendously increased in numbers each year thus expanding their range into places where habitat and prey could favor or support them. Currently, more than 800 wolves exist in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. It has taken Yellowstone National park 21 years of strategizing and planning to get wolves on the ground. This was seen as a conservative move by Yellowstone management since the population of wolves has been on the decrease. Despite this reintroduction, ranchers expressed their fears that wolves would kill their sheep and cattle. In order to justify the seriousness of the reintroduction program, defenders of wildlife conservation team established the Bailey wildlife foundation wolf compensation fund that would be used to pay ranchers and other livestock owners the market prices for proven losses to wolves (Philips et al, 1996).

The reintroduction program was meant to rescue the wolves because these animals are considered endangered and are at risk of extinction if not protected. The government of the United States under President Bush once announced that it was planning to kill the wolves that it had initially spent millions of dollars to reintroduce. The government believed that the wolves were adversely affecting the elk in Wyoming despite the fact that the numbers of elk in the area are always high. The State of Idaho rubbished this move by the government as crazy and misdirected and instead intended to manage wolves at a reasonable level. They filed a legal suit in court seeking to block government plans to hunt and kill wolves.