WEST COAST USA
Washington / Oregon / California / Alaska
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Northwestern Gray Wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis)
Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf (Canis lupus irremotus)
Population Statistics 2 packs (Feb 2020)
Legal Status; Protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and the California Endangered Species Act.
Resources
U S Fish and Wildlife Service (Grey wolves in Northern Rocky Mountains)
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
CDEW Gray Wolf Updates
Organizations
Earthjustice (Hq. San Francisco, California)
Wildlife Conservation Network (San Francisco, California)
Sierra Club California (find chapter)
EPIC Environmental Protection Information Center (Arcata, California)
Project Coyote (Larkspur, California)
Western Wolves (Western United States Coalition)
Western Watersheds Project (Tucson, AZ; Reseda, Ca; Boise, ID; Missoula, MT; Portland, OR; Pindale, WY)
Pacific Wolf Coalition (Washington State, Oregon, California)
The California Grizzly Research Network
https://youtu.be/JnDa6mANCyY
California News Resources & Publications
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California)
The Siskiyou Daily News (Yreka, California)
The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, California)
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California)
LATEST CALIFORNIA NEWSWolf and Wildlife News From California
- Wolves Returned to California. So Did ‘Crazy’ Rumors. |The New York Times
15th Mar 2022
- Summer diet of California’s recolonizing gray wolves | California Fish and Wildlife
29th Jan 2022
- Gray wolf spotted in Southern California | Highland News
06th Nov 2021
- Caltrans eyes early 2022 groundbreaking for $87 million wildlife bridge | VC Star
06th Oct 2021
- California wolf pack spotted alive amid destruction of Dixie Fire. ‘It’s total luck’ | The Sacramento Bee
29th Aug 2021
- For the First Time in a Century, California Has 2 Breeding Wolf Packs | Backpacker
12th Aug 2021
- As wildfires decimate the giant sequoia, California faces unprecedented loss | SF GATE
17th Jun 2021
- California wants to buy nonlethal bear traps and pay ranchers when wolves kill their cows | Sacramento Bee
03rd Jun 2021
- Guest Commentary | Wolves’ California treks show need for habitat connectivity | Santa Cruz Sentinel
19th May 2021
- On the heels of one rare gray wolf’s epic journey into California, another arrives| Los Angeles Times
15th May 2021
- Gray wolf detected in SLO County. It may be first Central Coast sighting in nearly 200 years | The Tribune
07th Apr 2021
- It’s no April Fool’s joke, there is a wild gray wolf in Monterey County | MSN
02nd Apr 2021
- Wandering wolf crosses into San Benito County | KSBW
30th Mar 2021
- Will the wolf survive? The stunning California odyssey of OR-93, a wolf on a mission | LA Times
25th Mar 2021
- The Wolf That Discovered California | SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE
19th Mar 2021
- California wolves update: newly named ‘Whaleback Pair’ carves out territory in Siskiyou | MtShasta News
19th Mar 2021
- Biden administration will reconsider northern spotted owl forest protection rollbacks | OPB
10th Mar 2021
- Rare Gray Wolf Visits Tuolumne County | My MotherLoad
26th Feb 2021
- Wolves in California: Siskiyou is home to a new pair | Mount Shasta Herald
29th Jan 2021
- Trail Cam Video Shows 8 Healthy Lassen Pack Pups in the Northern California Wilderness
05th Aug 2020
Journal Articles
Summer diet of California’s recolonizing gray wolves. DELLINGER, J.A., LAUDON, K. and FIGURA, P., California Fish and Wildlife 107(3):140-146; 2021
Conflicts and Attitudes Regarding the Return of the Grey Wolf to California. Burke K. Humboldt Geographic. 2020
Recolonizing Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) in Northern California: Preliminary Analysis of Suitable Areas for Reoccupancy. Nickel T, Walther S. Natural Areas Journal. 2019 Aug
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