That’s not many wolves. In fact, according to a number of conservationists,wolves occupy as little as 5 percent of the land where they historically roamed, which was almost the entire United States. And they nearly went extinct in the early 20th century thanks to frenzied predator control programs. Before all this havoc, there may have been some 2 million wolves strutting across the nation.
Today, gray wolves can be found in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin. “But most of those states have tiny wolf populations,” Wendy Keefover, native carnivore specialist for theHumane Society of the United States (HSUS), told The Dodo. For example, California is comprised of just seven or so wolves: a new pack of two adults and five pups referred to as the Shasta Pack, led by an alpha male named OR-7.
U.S. Government Might Give Our Remaining Wolves A Death Sentence.