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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.
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]
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]
Two new wolf packs have emerged in Northern California, continuing ‘noteworthy’ return. AP “This finding is noteworthy,” California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s wolf biologist Axel ...
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 ...
The Lassen Pack, which lives in Lassen National Forest, is California's second pack since wolves were eradicated from the state in the 1920s. [46] In June 2017, CDFW biologists fitted the female of the Lassen Pack breeding pair with a tracking collar. [47] OR-85 is a male wolf that traveled from Oregon to Siskiyou County in November 2020.
Fewer than 1,000 wolves roamed in the U.S. at that time, according to the International Wolf Center. Protected from hunting, gray wolves began to proliferate, and some people grew concerned they ...
[63] in March 2024, the Fish and Wildlife Services discovered that the wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the American Southwest had increased to 257 wolves, with 144 wolves (36 packs) in New Mexico and 113 wolves (20 packs) in Arizona. The annual pup survival rate was 62%. 113 wolves (44% of the population) have collars for monitoring ...