The Lone Wolf Returns | Orion Magazine

The Lone Wolf Returns

 

January 06, 2014, by Joe Donnelly

 

Last month, the first wild wolf recorded in California in ninety years made a quick return to the Golden State. The wolfs story was the subject of a feature by Joe Donnelly in the September/October 2013 issue of Orion.

The lone gray wolf known to scientists as OR7 ”and to anthropomorphically inclined fans as Journey”has sealed his reputation for the dramatic, or at least the symbolic, by crossing back to California for a couple of visits in December.

 

The large male wolf made a return appearance to the happy hunting ground where he spent all of 2012 and the first few months of 2013. And he arrived just in time to shine a spotlight on the California Department of Fish and Wildlifes long-simmering petition to protect gray wolves under the California Endangered Species Act.

Some brief backstory: When in

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