A Lone Wolf Travels Toward California

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Recent news accounts have reported that a gray wolf has been wandering in southern Oregon. According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) this animal is a 2 ½ year old male formerly from a pack in northeast Oregon.

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[#1Predator]

"Concerns about human safety are largely based on folklore and unsubstantiated in North America. In recent years there was one human mortality in Canada caused either by wolves or bears and one confirmed human mortality in Alaska by wolves. Based on experience from states where substantial wolf populations now exist, wolves pose little risk to humans."

Unlike California, these areas have very low human population densities. Things will change drastically when the wolves begin spreading south along the Sierra Nevada Range and its west facing slopes into the San Joaquin Valley. This is going to get very interesting. opcorn:

 

[#1Predator]

And this story from an AP article on Nov. 28, 2011...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izy6sz49adCUOvBVxBc9gYdCw4zw

 

[brknarrow]

our ancestors drove the wolf and griz to canada for a reason...course i guess cause globle warming we need to invite them back