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Related: About this forumNew Wolf Pack Confirmed in California's Plumas County
Source: Center for Biological Diversity
For Immediate Release, June 23, 2021
New Wolf Pack Confirmed in Californias Plumas County
Third Pack to Establish Home in State in Nearly 100 Years
SAN FRANCISCO The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reported today that a new wolf pack has established itself in southern Plumas County. Named the Beckwourth pack, the group of three wolves was first confirmed in May but not officially announced until today.
With states like Idaho and Montana racing to slaughter their wolf populations, this is such wonderful news, said Amaroq Weiss, senior West Coast wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. These beautiful newcomers are proving that California has great habitat for wolves, as scientists have said all along.
Photographs of the three wolves composing the Beckwourth pack were captured on a trail camera in May. A preliminary DNA analysis shows one wolf is LAS12F, a 2-year-old female wolf born into the Lassen Packs 2019 litter, the department reports, but the origins of the other two wolves are not yet known.
California currently has two other existing groups of wolves: the Lassen pack, confirmed in 2017, and the Whaleback pair, which is not yet a pack, confirmed in late 2020. Californias only other known wolf pack in modern times, the Shasta pack, was confirmed in summer 2015 but disappeared a few months later.
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Read more: https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-wolf-pack-confirmed-in-californias-plumas-county-2021-06-23/
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Related: California's Known Wolves - Past and Present 2021 (California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)
Wolf OR-93. Photo courtesy of Austin James, Jr., Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,704 posts)States that are planning to slaughter these magnificent animals infuriate me. A pox on them!
bahboo
(16,356 posts)Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)They are incredibly effective hunters and breed very quickly. The are perfectly capable of eating a new born calf. They lack the natural fear of humans that wolves seem to have and do well in urban areas. In short, they are going to be sorry they chose this path.
yonder
(9,676 posts)and got out while the gettings good.
burrowowl
(17,648 posts)calimary
(81,480 posts)StarryNite
(9,460 posts)I love wolves.