Lone Gray Wolf OR7 Now In California

December 29, 2011   DFG News
The California Department of Fish and Game just announced that yesterday Gray Wold OR7 crossed the California State line and is now in northern Siskiyou County.

Gray  wolves are a federally protected species. His progress and whereabouts will be closely monitored. The wolf wears a radio collar.


His appearance in California marks a significant event. The last wolf was shot in Lassen County in 1924. He is the first wolf to venture into California since then. Fish and Game will have much work to do monitoring him and protecting him.


Some hunters and landowners and ranchers with livestock to worry about blame gray wolves for the decline in deer herds and for predation on domesticated animals, mainly sheep and small cattle. However, despite the occasional loss of livestock wolves have a relatively small impact on domesticated animal herds.
Mountain lions reduce deer populations to a much greater extent than wolves as data from territories with wolf populations indicate.


In the United States wolves pose no real threat to humans.


Let us watch what this youthful and daring young wolf man will bring us.
PJJ