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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 was extirpated by federal and state governments from all of the U.S. by 1960, except in Alaska and northern Minnesota. The decline in North American wolf populations was reversed from the 1930s to the early 1950s, particularly in southwestern Canada, because of expanding ungulate populations resulting from improved regulation of ...
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.
Lawsuits began, and on Feb. 10, 2022, gray wolves in the lower 48 states — with the exception of the Northern Rocky Mountain population — were added back to the list by a court order.
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.
The annual Mexican gray wolf census found at least 257 of the endangered wolves in New Mexico and Arizona, up 15 from the previous year. The count shows a 6% increase in the number of Mexican gray ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the gray wolves’ endangered species status at the beginning of January 2021, when more than 6,000 wolves inhabited nine states. [8] After federal wolf protection ended, the states and tribes became responsible, once again, to manage the animal and regulate hunting. [9]
The DNR’s 2024 winter wolf population survey estimated at least 762 wolves distributed among 158 packs — a 131-animal increase since the last survey in 2022 and the highest estimate since 2012 ...