Saturday, May 2, 2015

Pluie, a magnificent female wolf

Y2Y NA Map with Scale
Stretch some 2,000 miles in length, the Yellowstone to Yukon region
is one of the last intact mountain ecosystems left on Earth.

In the early 1990s, radio collars, satellite transmitters and GPS technology revealed a pattern of long distance animal movements previously unknown to biologists. 
Between 1991 and 1993, Pluie, a wolf radio-collared in southern Alberta, covered an area 10 times the size of Yellowstone National park and 15 times that of Banff National Park. Other animals such as lynx, cougars, golden eagles and bull trout have also been recovered traveling distances of more than 1000 miles. Wildlife show us that the Yellowstone to Yukon region is the right scale to support their need to roam.


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The day I discovered Lobo, I found my West
The day I discovered Pluie, I found a Greenbelt
The animals lead the way, to find

There is no place for a hungry tiger in Eden, watercolor by James Gallagher

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