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By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7, traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin [citation needed] and crossed the border into California. [138] Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139]
Evidence shows that from one to five wolves pass through the state each year. [24] A few gray wolves have also been reported in South Dakota on both sides of the Missouri River. [21] A wolf with a mixture of Great Lakes, Northwest Territories, and eastern gray wolf strains was confirmed in New York in 2022. [25]
The gray wolf was extirpated by federal and state governments from all of the U.S. by 1960, except in Alaska and northern Minnesota. The decline in North American wolf populations was reversed from the 1930s to the early 1950s, particularly in southwestern Canada, because of expanding ungulate populations resulting from improved regulation of ...
A California gray wolf, dubbed OR 85, in 2023. The wolf was fitted with a satellite collar to help the California Department of Fish and Wildlife track the state's burgeoning wolf population.
Michigan’s gray wolf population in the Upper Peninsula is estimated to be its highest in 12 years and may have reached its natural limit, the state’s Department of Natural Resources said in a ...
Lawsuits began, and on Feb. 10, 2022, gray wolves in the lower 48 states — with the exception of the Northern Rocky Mountain population — were added back to the list by a court order.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the gray wolves’ endangered species status at the beginning of January 2021, when more than 6,000 wolves inhabited nine states. [8] After federal wolf protection ended, the states and tribes became responsible, once again, to manage the animal and regulate hunting. [9]
The gray wolf is listed as endangered in New Mexico and 44 other states, affording it federal protections in those states, and managed by state agencies in the other six states, mostly in the ...