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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]
In 2021, the state allotted $3 million to the effort, the most comprehensive plan for wolves in the nation. But the money ran out in May. In the midst of a budget deficit, the state this year ...
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 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 ...
A newly announced pack in the Sequoia National Forest is more than 200 miles south of the nearest known pack.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was ordered by the court to review the rule that caps the U.S. population at 325 wolves. [64] In 2021, a male Mexican gray wolf was stopped from crossing from New Mexico into Mexico by a section of border wall. [65] 2022 had the lowest number of mortalities (12 total) since 2017. [7]