Chapter 01 Environmental Interrelationships 1. Give examples of political, economic, and biological aspects of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Political 1. Congress passed a law to fund the elimination of wolves on public lands in the early 1900s. 2. They also passed a law to allow the reintroduction of wolves. 3. People from Wyoming and adjacent states lobbied congress to prevent the reintroduction of wolves. Economic 1. Congress provided funding for eliminating wolves. 2. Farmers and ranchers opposed reintroduction because they feared losses of livestock to predation from wolves. Biological 1. The conventional wisdom of the early 1900s was that elimination of wolves would improve hunting of game species. 2. Biologists recognized that the absence of wolves was causing changes to the Yellowstone ecosystem, which led to the reintroduction of wolves and restoration of the ecosystem. Bloom's Level: 2. Understand