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ELK AND OTHER WILDLIFE SPECIES ELK AND OTHER HERBIVORES: RESEARCH SUMMARY The nOlthern <strong>Yellowstone</strong> elk herd more than quadrupled in numbers between 1968, the time of their release from in-park reductions, and 1988 (Appendix B). This increase has given rise to COncerns in the popular press (Chase 1986) and in scientific circles (Kay 1990, Wagner et aJ. 1995a) that elk are pushing other ungulate species off the northelTI range. As mentioned earlier, competition between species is a fact of life in nature. The existence of competition in itself should not be regarded as proof that something is wrong. Dozens of birds species and thousands of insect sp~cies compete for common resources on the northern range, but the varying fortunes of these competing species are not commonly thought of as something in need of repair. Thus, though it is true that the ungulates of the northern range do to varying extents specialize in food selection, they also overlap, some greatly. This leaves the difficult question of how much overlap and competition can be tolerated under the National Park Service's mandates to preserve native species. As discussed in chapters Four and Six this is a complex question. In this section, research findings on this subject are reviewed.
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