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Wolves have naturally migrated in the three state region. As of 2021, the estimated stable population is 4,400 in the three states. [20] Wolves may also disperse across the Great Plains into this region from the northern Rocky Mountain region which includes Wyoming with approximately 300 wolves and Colorado with a small population.
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today. [18]
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]
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 have been spotted in Northern California, which shows a continued resurgence of the species a century after they disappeared from the Golden State.
On the state level, gray wolves are no longer considered a threatened or endangered species. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan gray wolf population at 12-year high, ...
The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo mexicano (or, simply, lobo) [a] is a subspecies of gray wolf (C. lupus) native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern New Mexico (in the United States) and fragmented areas of northern Mexico.
“In total, the gray wolf population in the lower 48 states is more than 6,000 wolves, greatly exceeding the combined recovery goals for the Northern Rocky Mountains and Western Great Lakes ...