The below link was
forwarded onto me by Allen Shallenberger (double click to open it). It is a photograph time series from 1912 to 2010
of the Madison River near the Seven Mile Bridge in Yellowstone National
Park. This photo series does and incredible job of demonstrating the
types of vegetation community changes that have occurred across our landscape
in as little as 100 years. In this particular case, the complete
conversion of a willow and aspen dominated riparian area to a much drier
grassland type. I would hypothesis that even in the complete absence of
hunting, moose occurrence on this particular landscape has trended from common
to little or none, because there is no longer moose habitat present.
Dean Waltee, Wildlife Biologist, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.
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