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OR-7 in Modoc County (2012) 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]
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 spotted in Northern California reveal a continued resurgence of the species, a century after they disappeared from the Golden State. Wildlife officials confirmed the existence ...
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]
In 2017, three wolf pups were born in this forest. [22] Their mother is a female wolf of unknown origins. Their father is the son of OR7, a wolf with a tracking device that was the first of its kind in almost a century to migrate into California from Oregon. [23] As of July 2020, the pack has 14 members, with 8 new pups.
A newly announced pack in the Sequoia National Forest is more than 200 miles south of the nearest known pack.
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 gray wolf was extirpated in Denmark in 1772 and Norway's last wolf was killed in 1973. The species was decimated in 20th century Finland, despite regular dispersals from Russia. The gray wolf was only present in the eastern and northern parts of Finland by 1900, though its numbers increased after World War II. [4]