Hopefully They will let this pack live its life Naturally
JACKSON, WYO. — A wolf pack spotted chasing pronghorn and bighorn sheep on the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming last month may be a new pack that split off from one that usually roams around Grand Teton National Park, a biologist says.
Elk refuge biologist Eric Cole said that because none of the animals wore tracking collars, wildlife managers had to rely entirely on coloration to try to identify the lobos.
“Our best guess is that the pack with four black and two gray wolves that was observed in the refuge in mid-January was likely previously in the Huckleberry Pack,” Cole said.
When it was last located, the Huckleberry Pack consisted of 10 black wolves and one gray wolf. Its home range isn’t outlined in state wolf reports, which indicate the pack’s ordinary territory is west of Jackson Lake in the northern Teton Range.
“Some wolves probably left that pack because there were observations with a high number of black wolves in the Gros Ventre River drainage in the late-winter/spring of 2015,” Cole said. “But none of those were collared, so it’s difficult to observe where they went or where they came from. It’s entirely based on the color scheme of the wolves.”