Jillian Patrie | University of Minnesota Yard and Garden Extension ...

By 2007, an estimated 1,500 wolves inhabited the northern Rockies of the United States ... the absence of trees due in no small part to an overabundance of browsing elk. With wolves back on ...

The new trees are being planted in areas where ski runs were cut in 2006 and where the Lolo Peak fire burned in 2017.

While most in the U.S. are enjoying spring warmth, heavy, wet snow has blanketed the high country of several western states.