Here are the latest species counts for California’s gray wolf packs

From The San Bernadino Sun:

California has a growing number of gray wolves howling in the wild and have been tracked for more than a dozen years.

Gray wolves are native to California, but starting in the mid-19th century, European colonizers started hunting wolves to protect livestock. By the 1920s, wolves had been completely removed from the state. In 2011, that changed.

The gray wolf (Canis lupus) is a recovering endangered species protected under the California Endangered Species Acts and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Endangered Species Act.

In 2011, a male wolf, part of a 2009 Oregon litter and tagged OR-7, entered California and became the first wolf to enter the state since 1924. OR-7 traveled thousands of miles through California before finally settling back in Oregon with a mate. Several wolves from that pairing have migrated and settled in California.

 

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