If the group still has at least four wolves by the end of the year it will be named the Warm Springs Pack, the department said.
The new area includes parts of Jefferson and Wasco counties.
Around the country, gray wolf populations seem to be increasing, while numbers among red wolves dwindle. Per theIn Alaska, there are currently over 8,000 wolves, and Alaska is the only U.S.
Wolves once ranged across most of the U.S. but were nearly wiped out by the 1930s under government-sponsored poisoning and trapping campaigns. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife counted at least 175 wolves in the state in 2021, an increase of just two from the previous year. It was the slowest rate of wolf growth since 2016, although agency officials did add that wolves expanded their range into four new areas of activity in rural areas in Jefferson, Klamath, Grant and Union counties.
The number of documented packs in 2021 decreased from 22 to 21 after an entire pack was killed by poisoning in eastern Oregon. Of the 26 wolf mortalities documented that year, 21 were caused by humans, according to the agency.
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