Experts say trail cameras have captured new images of the only wolves known to live in Oregon’s northern Cascades.  According to the Oregonian, cameras, which are operated as part of a collaboration between Defenders of Wildlife and Cascadia Wild, caught pictures of the adult canids, believed to be the breeding pair of the White River Pack.  The pictures were taken last month near the Warm Springs Reservation.

 

Oregon is home to at least 137 wolves, with most clustered in the northeast corner of the state.  In 2017, two wolves were seen in southern Wasco County and, by the next year, they had given birth to a litter of pups.  It was the first established pack in the northern Cascades since wolves were reintroduced to the Northwest.  In 2019, the pack added six more pups. With three yearlings, six pups and the breeding pair, the pack is now estimated to number 11 wolves.

 

 

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