Please note, this is NOT the actual picture….. ;(
A female gray wolf was found dead on Monday, apparently struck by a car, between mileposts 41 and 42 of Interstate 90 west of Snoqualmie Pass.
It was the first wolf killed by a car west of the Cascade Crest, and a possible sign that “Canis lupus” is expanding its habitat to the front range of the North and Central Cascades.
Wolves have moved south from protected lands on the U.S.-Canada border to repopulate the Washington Cascades. e Teanaway wolf pack in the Cascade Mountains. (Photo courtesy of Conservation Northwest).
Wolves have moved south from protected lands on the U.S.-Canada border to repopulate the Washington Cascades. (Photo courtesy of Conservation Northwest).
A remote corner of Western Washington, the slopes of Hozomeen Mountain at the north end of Ross Lake — just south of the Canadian border — was one of the first places that wolves began to repopulate Washington.
A wolf was photographed sauntering through a children’s playground in British Columbia’s Skagit Provincial Recreation Area, just over the border.
Otherwise, wolf packs have established themselves in the Methow Valley — despite a gruesome poaching incident — and in the Teanaway Valley east of Ellensburg. A breeding female wolf in the Teanaway Pack was shot last year.
The poachers in the Methow were caught — they poached other animals as well — and faced stiff fines. The alleged human being who shot the wolf in the Teanaway has not been apprehended.