A new pack of gray wolves has been confirmed at a site in Sequoia National Forest, California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials announced on Friday.
The new pack consists of at least five wolves that have not been detected before in California — an adult female and four pups, two female and two male, CDFWGray wolves are native to California but had been extirpated from the state by the 1920s. In 2011, adult male wolf OR7 crossed into the state to expand his territory before returning to Oregon; the adult female in the new wolf pack is descended from OR7.
The pack was first reported to CDFW on July 6 from a portion of Sequoia National Forest in the state’s Tulare County. A subsequent investigation of the reported site turned up 12 fecal and hair samples, which were then tested and confirmed to be those of gray wolves. “As Sam and I were driving into our site, a large canid ran off the Forest Service road ahead of us. She paused, and started to pace and make these vocalizations. All we could think was, ‘she doesn’t look like a coyote but she has to be, right?’ She sure didn’t behave like a coyote either,” Ms. Harris recounted inAfter driving a little further, the two ecologists found large tracks, which further indicated that the canid they saw was not a coyote.
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