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OR-7 was the first confirmed wild wolf in California since 1924. [14] In late December 2011, the data sent by his GPS tracking collar showed he had crossed the Oregon–California border. Nicknamed Journey, [15] he was a male gray wolf that migrated from the Wallowa Mountains in the northeastern corner of Oregon. [16]
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.
A 2016 state conservation plan estimated that the landscape north of Interstate 80 could support roughly 370 to 500 wolves. Gray wolves in the lower 48 states, and particularly California, tend to ...
Two new wolf packs spotted in Northern California reveal a continued resurgence of the species, a century after they disappeared from the Golden State. Wildlife officials confirmed the existence ...
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 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]
The gray wolf's decline in the prairies began with the extirpation of the American bison and other ungulates in the 1860s–70s. From 1900 to 1930, the gray wolf was virtually eliminated from the western U.S. and adjoining parts of Canada, because of intensive predator control programs aimed at eradicating the species.
A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday. It ...
A newly identified pack of endangered gray wolves is roaming in California’s Sierra Nevada, at least 200 miles away from the nearest known pack, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife ...