California Wolves

OR-7 was captured on a hunter's trail camera shortly before migrating into California (A Daniels).

In 1999, Bob Ferris (current Cascadia Wildlands Executive Director) wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle speculating about the potential for wolves to return to California.  In 2011 OR-7, now known as “Journey,” traveled to California from his birthplace in Oregon as one of the Imnaha pack pups.  Just as we need to work to keep wolves alive in Idaho to provide wolves for Oregon and Washington, we need to keep wolves protected and alive in Oregon to repopulate those areas in northern California still capable of supporting a viable population of wolves.  OR-7 is a pioneer and we at Cascadia Wildlands will work to make sure this pioneer or subsequent pioneers have a future in California.