Around this time last year, wolf advocates celebrated news that after traveling thousands of miles alone looking for love and a new home, Oregon’s famous lone wolf OR-7 had found a mate and welcomed a litter of pups into the world. Continue reading
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Biologists plan to re-collar Ore.’s wandering wolf
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Biologists plan to recapture and re-collar OR-7, Oregon’s famous wandering wolf that is now a settled father of pups. Continue reading
OR-7 journey to find love appears to have ended successfully
National Geographic Young Explorer Jay Simpson is part of the Wolf OR-7 Expedition, a 1,200-mile adventure in the tracks of a wolf. Using an estimated GPS track of the lone Wolf OR-7, the team will mountain bike and hike across Oregon and Northern California. Their aim is to raise awareness of local strategies that make on-the-ground strides toward human and wolf coexistence in the region. Continue reading
California officials say gray wolves could return in packs
REDDING, Calif. — Based on recent forays into California by a gray wolf known to researchers as OR-7, state wildlife officials believe it is “reasonably forseeable” that wolf packs will one day return to the state. Continue reading
OR-7, back in Oregon for 2 weeks, seen feasting on an elk
Wandering wolf OR-7 is spending his second week back from California in Jackson County, where he’s been feeding on a dead elk as he continues his apparent search for a mate. Continue reading
Modoc Coyote Hunt Raises Concerns About California’s Lone Wolf
California only has one known wolf, and now wildlife activists are worried that he will die in a storm of bullets. Continue reading
Pacific Wolf Coalition releases first press release
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Twenty-five wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and Washington today announced the formation of an alliance committed to recovering wolves across the region. The Pacific Wolf Coalition envisions populations of wolves restored across their historic habitats in numbers that will allow them to re-establish their critical role in nature and ensure their long-term survival. Continue reading
Anniversary of OR-7’s Arrival in California Inspires New Wolf Alliance
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Dec. 21, 2012 – Twenty-five wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and Washington today announced the formation of an alliance committed to recovering wolves across the region. The Pacific Wolf Coalition envisions populations of wolves restored across their historic habitats in numbers that will allow them to re-establish their critical role in nature and ensure their long-term survival. The announcement of the Pacific Wolf Coalition coincides with the one-year anniversary of the first wolf, OR-7, in California in nearly 90 years. Continue reading
Lone California wolf cleverly using wildfire?
The famous lone wolf of California has been roaming curiously close to a large wildfire in Plumas County this week in what experts think might be a fiendishly clever ploy to pick off prey fleeing the flames. Continue reading
Wandering wolf spurs status debate
A wandering Oregon wolf that has been out looking for love has gotten the cold shoulder from people in one Northern California county. Continue reading
Oregon’s wandering wolf doing well, caught on camera
OR-7 caught on camera
Oregon native, OR-7, has apparently settled down for a little while in Southwestern Modoc County, is hanging out with local Coyotes, and has even “posed” for a photo.
Closely watched lone wolf quits California for Oregon
(Reuters) – Apparently OR-7 has a cold, wet nose for the Pacific Northwest. Continue reading
Wandering wolf OR7 tracked in same area as California’s last wild wolf, in 1924
California’s new wild wolf resident generally has been on the move since arriving one month ago. But the wolf known as OR7 has spent a lot of time lately in the same region where the state’s last known wild wolf was killed in 1924. Continue reading
On the trail of romance: Lonely gray wolf walking across U.S. to find mate spotted for the first time
A gray wolf, who wandered hundreds of miles from home in search of a mate, has been captured on camera for the first time. Continue reading
Wandering wolf inspires hope and dread
GRANTS PASS, Ore.—A young wolf from Oregon has become a media celebrity while looking for love, tracing a zigzag path that has carried him hundreds of miles nearly to California, while his alpha male sire and a sibling that stayed home near the Idaho border are under a death warrant for killing cattle. Continue reading
