Wolves in the Lower 48

Source: Timber Wolf Alliance News / October 2002 The Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) is the most genetically distinct population of gray wolves and one of the rarest mammals in the world. Prior to near extinction by the late 1970s, as many as 4,000 Mexican Gray Wolves inhabited Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. […]

Once common throughout the southeast as far as Texas, Red Wolf (Canis rufus) populations were decimated by the 1960s. Twenty years later, the Red Wolf was extinct in the wild. In 1973, 14 remaining purebred wolves were captured and placed in captive breeding programs. By 1987, enough Red Wolves were bred in captivity and a

First Confirmed Wolf in Colorado in 69 Years Theo Stein / Denver Post / AP / June 23, 2004 A young wolf from a Yellowstone pack was found dead along Interstate 70 west of Idaho Springs on Saturday, the first confirmed wild wolf in Colorado in 69 years. The appearance of the female wolf, designated

Allen Best / Denver Post / August 2004 Wolves are once again loping through Colorado and Utah, and I suppose I should be glad. More rapidly than it took to wipe out grizzlies, lynx and other competitor species, wolves are returning to the ark of the Southern Rockies ecosystem. But yet I pause, and an

Wolves had been removed from the northern Rocky Mountains region since the 1930s. •In 1986, naturally recolonizing wolves, emigrating from Canada were denning in the northern Rockies. •In the early 1990s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funded studies in the southern Rockies, including Colorado, that revealed there is habitat and prey capable of supporting

Wolves in Oregon Source: OR Fish and Wildlife  / February 28, 2013 Oregon Wolves – Wolf Use Area Map Wolves in the Pacific Northwest Source: Timber Wolf Alliance / October 2002 Wolves occasionally emigrate from Idaho into eastern Oregon as the Idaho wolf population expands. So far this year (2002), the UWFWS has received 44 observation reports

Federal agency preparing a plan to deal with the return of packs Kathy George / Seattle Post-Intelligencer / July 5 , 2004 Wolves are about to return to Washington after decades of absence, and federal regulators have begun drafting a plan for their arrival — addressing what to do when the howling canids scare people

Shannon Basner / Wolf Song of Alaska Volunteer After being wiped out for several decades, the wolf was reintroduced into the Idaho area in 1995.  Reports from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have estimated there to be about 285 wolves in Idaho presently.  Since the reintroduction, the wolves have migrated as far as Utah

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Source: Timber Wolf Alliance News / October 2002 The new wolf population figure for Wisconsin is 320 wolves in approximately 70-80 packs, including those on Indian Reservations. Eighteen confirmed livestock depredations due to wolves and 17 dog depredations occurred. Over a 10 to 12 year period, wildlife service trappers, and state and federal biologists trapped