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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.
SAN FRANCISCO – The last wild wolf in California was shot in 1924. It wasn’t until 2011 that another padded across the Oregon border. Today, gray wolves are making a major comeback in the ...
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 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.
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.
A newly announced pack in the Sequoia National Forest is more than 200 miles south of the nearest known pack.
In July 2012, for the first time in 150 years, wolves were born in Heidekreis in Lower Saxony, which confirms the spread of wolves from the eastern part of Germany. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In October 2014 Lower Saxony already had a wolf population of circa 50 animals: 5 packs, all with confirmed pups in 2014, 2 confirmed mated pairs and one territorial ...