California wolves

  • California Wolf Restoration: A Look Back, Today And The Future.

    George Wuerthner

    Back in 2000, I wrote a piece for California Wild about the prospects for wolf restoration in the state. At that time, there had not been any wolves reported in the Golden State in decades. Nevertheless, I felt the state could easily support a wolf populaiton. In my article, I pretended that it was 2020…

  • OR-7 and mate have pups

    Ralph Maughan

    Far wandering wolf and mate have first Oregon Cascade pups in over 70 years- There was joy among wolf conservationists this spring when famous wolf OR-7 was found to be in company of a female wolf after his years of wandering over a thousand miles from his NE Oregon birthplace and then probably thousands more around the…

  • Study: until the 20th century, wolves inhabited much of California

    Ralph Maughan

    Study results are relevant to decision whether to put wolves under the state’s ESA- San Francisco. There are those who say the gray wolf had just a marginal presence in California before it was killed off in the 1920s. However, the Sonoma State University Anthropological Studies Center has now shown there was a widespread presence of…

  • Wolf OR7 now just ten miles from California border (see update)

    Ralph Maughan

    Update. Famous wolf has now crossed into California. Story. Wolf is now in California. AP After migrating across Oregon, but pausing for about a month south of Crater Lake N. P., wolf OR7 has begun to move southward again. He is now just 10 miles north of the CA border, a very easy day’s walk…

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