Slough Creek Pack romps at will through the Lamar Valley

Slough Creek dominates the upper northern range and kills a Geode.

Starving Biscuit Basin Pack leaves Yellowstone Park.

3-10-2005

As far as the upper reaches of Yellowstone's Northern Range go, the Slough Creek Pack seems unstoppable. There are too many of them and they are big.
The Druids have been forced way up Cache Creek. The Agate Creek Pack is down to six (of those missing at least one dispersed). The Sloughs recently caught a Geode Pack wolf in Little America, a pup, and killed it. The Geodes are now at 8, down from 12. The Specimen Ridge Pack, led by the U-Black, seems to be down to 3 wolves.

The U-Black on Feb. 20, 2005. Photo by Bert Katzung.
The "phantom pack" shows up once an a while. They were at Little America the other day. None of them are collared.
The only pack with the numbers to confront the Sloughs is the even larger Leopold pack, but their territory is secure on the Blacktail Deer Plateau some distance away.
Meanwhile, the Biscuit Basin Pack which just couldn't find enough to eat in the Old Faithful area, has left the Park and are in the Island Park area west of Yellowstone in Idaho. If they can make it out of Island Park, they can find a very large wintering elk herd in the Sand Creek area and perhaps survive.
Most of this information was furnished by Dr. Doug Smith of Yellowstone Park.

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