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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 wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo , though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
In Canada, the gray wolf was extirpated in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia between 1870 and 1921, and in Newfoundland around 1911. It vanished from the southern regions of Quebec and Ontario between 1850 and 1900. The gray wolf's decline in the prairies began with the extirpation of the American bison and other ungulates in the 1860s–70s. From ...
Apr. 29—The ABQ BioPark always has a plan. The more than 150-acre area has to be able to manage its growth — thanks in part to a voter-approved 1/8-cent gross receipts tax (GRT) which was ...
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 ...
The agency said it planned to devise a nationwide gray wolf recovery plan by 2025. The service also reported there were 2,797 gray wolves in 286 packs across the Western U.S.
The Mexican wolf is the smallest of North America's gray wolf subspecies, [9] weighing 50–80 lb (23–36 kg) with an average height of 28–32 in (710–810 mm) and an average length of 5.5 ft (1.7 m). [10]
This wolf weighed 77.5 pounds, and measured 62 inches from nose to tip of the tail, the agency said. Note that wolves are protected in Iowa and there is no open season.