Montana's Wolves Are Back
Restoring the Predator Guild of the Northern Rockies
Wolves and Tourism
Wolves in Yellowstone earn more than 35 million dollars for local economies annually.
Wolves also play an increasingly important role in the Northern Rocky Mountain region's economy. According to a recent study, the roughly 151,000 people who visit Yellowstone National Park each year to see wolves bring in $35 million annually to Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, which is multiplied several times within the local economies. And nearly four percent of Yellowstone National Park's 2.8 million annual visitors say they would not have visited the nation's oldest national park if wolves weren't there.
Source:
Wolf Recovery in Yellowstone Park Visitor Attitudes, Expenditures, and Economic Impacts. John W. Duffield, Chris J. Neher, and David A. Patterson. 16(1) • 2008 Yellowstone Science pp 20-25; UM economist: Wolves a big moneymaker, Billings Gazette, 4/72006