It is amazing the stories being publicized from oregon, 1 claims 77 wolves, 1 claims 124 left… It is difficult for the public to further believe ODFW
Oregon Ranchers west of Mt Hood will be turning these few into 20 wolves and 150 depredations…..
At least two wolf pups were observed on the southern flanks of Mount Hood earlier this month, marking the first time a breeding pair of Wolves has been seen in the northern Cascades since the endangered canids first returned to Oregon around a decade ago.
In pictures released by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Wednesday, the pups can be seen alongside one of their parents, known as the White River Wolves, one of the younger animals with its head craned curiously toward the camera.
The images were captured by a trail camera on the Warm Springs reservation August 10, officials said.
“Today, we let out a huge howl knowing that a wolf pack is rightly back on the landscape around iconic Mt. Hood after the species was systematically exterminated decades ago,” Josh Laughlin, Executive Director of Cascadia Wildlands, said in a statement.
After decades of hunting and trapping, wolves were extirpated from the Pacific Northwest by the middle of the 20th century and only returned to Oregon in 2009 after being reintroduced in Idaho and Wyoming.
Source: First wolf pups confirmed in Oregon’s northern Cascades | OregonLive.com