A pack of gray wolves has settled into the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada range north of L.A.
Biologists believe that a pack of gray wolves has settled into the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada range north of Los Angeles, marking the return of wolves to the area after more than a century.Now, biologists are cautiously optimistic that California’s southernmost wolf pack, which includes the female’s four offspring — two males and two females — will adapt to its new environs some 130 miles north of Los Angeles.
Yet the sudden appearance of the so-called Tulare Pack is already generating friction among Central Valley livestock owners and the managers of ambitious fuel reduction projects underway in and around areas of Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument scorched by recent wildfires.
Amid concerns about global environmental issues like climate change, the return of wolves to California, even to Southern California, is a sign that other, more practical environmental improvements are having an impact.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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