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OR-7, California's first resident wolf in over 80 years. In late December 2011, OR-7, a male gray wolf from Oregon, became the first confirmed wild wolf in California since 1924, when wolves were considered extirpated from the state.
They were abundant from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, however, due to hunting and habitat encroachment by humans, they were considered extinct in the state by the 1920s.
The pack was Oregon's first since wolves returned to the state. [12] The wolves were numbered; one of them, a year-old male from the pack's second litter, [13] was given the code OR-7 as the seventh wolf to be collared. [11] [14] [15]
California wildlife officials recently outfitted 12 gray wolves with satellite collars, allowing enhanced monitoring of the population that has started to take off in recent years.
Government-sponsored eradication programs almost wiped out the Mexican wolf in the lower 48 United States. In the mid-1970s, only seven unrelated Mexican wolves were available to start a captive breeding program. Today, as a result of that successful breeding program, there are approximately 83 free-ranging Mexican wolves living in the wild.
In the years since OR7 in 2011 became the first known wolf to venture into California in nearly a century, more than 40 wolves have passed through, settled or been born in California. Almost all ...
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 ...
Recently another subspecies, the British Columbia wolf (Canis lupus columbianus), has established itself in the Cascade mountain wolf's past territory by following the Cascade Range through Washington and is now west of the Cascade Crest, [8] expanding across Oregon, [9] and into northern California to Lassen Peak, where in 2019 the Lassen pack produced 3 pups.