wolf movement

[WAcoyotehunter]

Call it migration, movement, expansion, dispersal (that's what I call it) ...whatever- wolves can and will move great distances and set up camp.  This wolf has been on the move for a long time and has now settled near Grant's Pass OR. 

Without a GPS collar we would have never known his story.  The wolves that set up camp in Twisp likely had a move to make as well.  This shows the willingness of a wolf to cover great distances before calling a place home.

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2014/jun/04/wandering-wolf-or-7-mate-have-pups/ 

WILDLIFE WATCHING — The speculation is over on whether Oregon's famous radio-collared wandering wolf has a mate.

OR-7 and its mate have produced pups, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed.
•See other images of OR-7, its mate and other Oregon wolves at ODFW’s wolf photo gallery

OR-7, the name given to the male wolf when it was first captured, radio-collared and released in northeast Oregon, found a mate in the Rogue River area of southwest Oregon’s Cascade Mountains after capturing worldwide attention as its movements were followed on the web through Oregon and California.

Read on for more details from the Associated Press:


GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Oregon’s famous wandering wolf has fathered pups with a mate in the southern Cascade Range — the first confirmed wolf pack in those mountains since the 1940s, officials said Wednesday.

Biologists made the determination after traveling Monday to a site on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest east of Medford, where photos and a GPS tracking collar showed the wolf known as OR-7 has been living with a mate.

They saw two pups peering out from a pile of logs and may have heard more, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

OR-7 and his mate were nowhere to be seen but could well have been nearby in the dense timber, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist John Stephenson said.

“It was pretty exciting seeing the pups,” he said. “OR-7 was probably off getting some food. We saw a couple deer (and elk) legs that had obviously been getting chewed on.”

Scientists also saw some ground disturbance where the pack “clearly had been playing around,” Stephenson said.

The discovery marked the farthest west and south a wolf pack has established itself since the animals were reintroduced in the Northern Rockies in the 1990s, he said.

Any wolves that set up house in western Oregon or California are still covered by the U.S. Endangered Species Act, but U.S. Fish and Wildlife is expected to decide in December on a proposal to lift that protection.

The bulk of Oregon’s wolves in the northeastern corner of the state are protected by the state, and California is considering whether to protect any wolves that move there.

OR-7 set off in search of a mate in September 2011, covering thousands of miles from his birthplace in northeastern Oregon to Northern California and back into southwestern Oregon.

OR-7 became famous as his tracking collar chronicled his lonesome wanderings across deserts, highways and mountains. Last winter he began spending his time in a limited area, typical of a wolf that has found a mate. Trail camera photos confirmed it last month.

Stephenson said he went into the area one evening in late April and howled and got a return howl, indicating OR-7 was protecting his territory from other wolves that might want to move in.

“In real wolf country, where you have a lot of wolves, if a lone man is among other wolves in that territory it can be dangerous,” he said. “You can be attacked.”

Stephenson expects the pack to leave the den this summer, moving some distance to what is known as a rendezvous site, where the pups are left behind while the parents hunt.

Stephenson said he has issued an advisory about the wolf to ranchers who will be turning out cattle on federal grazing allotments.

“They are not really excited about it,” he said. “They seem to be taking it in stride. We will be working to take preventative measures.”

No evidence has surfaced that OR-7 has attacked livestock, despite coming from the Imnaha pack, which has been blamed for several livestock attacks in Wallowa County.

“Typically livestock depredation becomes more of a problem in bigger packs,” Stephenson said. “Hopefully we won’t have any problems.”

[jackelope]

No way. That is so wierd.
Thanks for sharing.

[wolfbait]

 After three or four years of people reporting wolf sightings and wolves killing livestock, and finally someones dog, the USFWS and CDFW  will leap to their feet and exclaim FIRST WOLF PACK in 70 years. DNA test will be taken which will show that it's one of OR-7's pups, shock will be followed by more shock as the news hits mainstream media, story after story will be told about OR-7 and her amazing trip to California and back.

 There will be several articles stating that the wolves had Naturally Migrated, (not just migrated) they would have to throw the "natural" part in so there was no question that the wolves had not migrate to California in pickup trucks and horse trailers. I'm sure they will have a state picked out where the wolves had naturally migrated from, (Grant's Pass OR), there will never be anything mentioned about wolves disbursing.  By then WA and OR will be old wolf history and the BBC crew along with CNW, DoW, and the rest of WDFW's friends will lope off to California for a brand-new wolf story. Of course CDFW will have to start new wolf studies, since wolves that naturally migrate change when they cross state lines and are confirmed. The same failed wolf predation prevention tactics will be used, and CDFW will tell the people of California not to worry, wolves are good, they make the aspen grow, balance the ecosystem and beavers flourish.

Biologist from CDFW will refuse to confirm naturally migrated wolves that pop up in all four corners of the state, or where wolves are to be delisted when they hit a certain number that CDFW's pro-wolf group pulls from the sky. Game herds will hang in towns for protection and when CDFW are questioned about the impact wolves are having on the herds, they will say "for the amount of hunters that showed up, hunting was a great success". Livestock kills will be blamed on everything except wolves, CDFW like WDFW will tell the public that you have to eat wolf scat in order to get Hydatid disease, and there have only been two people killed by wolves in North America, the wolves are shy gentle creatures that avoid humans.

By this time magic meatballs and SS would have been going on for several years, and the rural folks would have caught CDFW releasing wolves many times, and heard them denying it at wolf meetings every time. CDFW would have their biologist along with DoW's flunkies on hunting sights trying to squelch any talk of CDFW releasing wolves, and coaching them to continually say the wolves migrated naturally, it was a natural migration, there won't be a wolf mentioned by the pro-wolf crowd without first stating the wolves naturally migrated from some state.

Some guy taking an early morning jog will be attacked by some wolves, he will end up shooting one of them, and then being honest like he is, he will report it to the USFWS and CDFW, the story will make mainstream media with a big splash, after the investigation the story will disappear never to be heard about again. Eventually DoW, CNW, CDFW will put up a $50,000.00 reward for information leading to anyone shooting a wolf/wolves.


News Alert- California's Solar-Q3 wolf has traveled into Nevada, it looks like she went right by Harry Reid's solar ranch, trotted around and peed on Harry's porch a few times and is now back in California>>>>Five years later after several reports of wolf sightings, some of Bundy's cattle killed, and a Chinese solar inspector chewed up, NDOW comes out with First Wolf Pack in Seventy Years, DNA confirms it is one of Solar-Q3's pups…………………..

[WAcoyotehunter]

 

You are a miracle.

Please explain to us why this wolf might have been trucked all over hell and gone for the last year.  And why, if he was "planted", why it didn't happen in CA? 

CA is probably drooling at the prospect of wolf recovery.

[idahohuntr]

You are a miracle.

Couldn't agree more. When I was in Idaho we had this real laughing stock named rockholm. He was a real nut job and nobody took him seriously and he was completely irrelevant to management issues.  It is hilarious to see we have a couple of little rockholm jrs. here in wa.  I wonder if they met in the same padded room to contrive these conspiracies? 

[timberfaller]

 :chuckle:Ya just gotta love satire! :chuckle:and how it effects some people

[wolfbait]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northern Rocky Mountain Recovery Program Update

2008

 Until 2008, no wild wolves had been confirmed west of the DPS boundary in Washington or Oregon. However, in July 2008, a wolf pack (2 adults and 6 pups) was discovered near Twisp, WA (just east of the North Cascades and west of the DPS boundary). Genetic testing showed these wolves did not originate from the NRM DPS; instead they apparently dispersed southward from the wolf population in southcentral British Columbia. Both adults were radio-collared and the pack is being monitored via radio telemetry by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. If this pack persists it will remain separated and distinct from the NRM DPS by the large expanse of unsuitable wolf habitat in eastern WA and OR.

 http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/species/mammals/wolf/annualrpt08/FINAL_2008_USFWS_Recovery_Program_Update_3-17-09.pdf


DNA samples confirm gray wolves are back in Methow ValleyBy Joyce Campbell
Methow Valley News
July 24, 2008

DNA tests showed that the wolves originated from a population in the northern British Columbia and Alberta provinces of Canada.
"This is a natural colonization," said Fitkin. "The wolves are naturally immigrating."  http://www.conservationnw.org/news/pressroom/press-clips/dna-samples-confirm-gray-wolves-are-back-in-methow-valley

Is there a difference between "southcentral British Columbia" and "northern British Columbia and Alberta provinces of Canada"?

If so, who is lying? Both of them? Perhaps they should have gotten their story straight as to where they were going to say the wolves came from?

[idahohuntr]

If so, who is lying?

Probably you.

Not sure what point you are trying to make?  Wolves migrate from lots of places...well established fact. 

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