{"id":142722,"date":"2020-10-25T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=142722"},"modified":"2020-10-25T12:35:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T12:35:29","slug":"californias-lassen-wolf-pack-welcomes-pups-for-fourth-consecutive-year-see-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/californias-lassen-wolf-pack-welcomes-pups-for-fourth-consecutive-year-see-video\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Lassen Wolf Pack Welcomes Pups for Fourth Consecutive Year &#8211; See Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23455 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Nikai_pup_walk_edit_logo_sm.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Nikai_pup_walk_edit_logo_sm.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Nikai_pup_walk_edit_logo_sm-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Nikai_pup_walk_edit_logo_sm-600x351.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"294\" \/><figcaption><em>Wolf Conservation Center Ambassador Wolf Nikai in 2014<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>California\u2019s only known existing wolf family, the Lassen Pack, has given birth to pups for the fourth consecutive year! The pack welcomed four pups in 2017, five in 2018, four in 2019, and eight in 2020! Beyond proving both fruitful and resilient, as California\u2019s second confirmed family group in nearly 100 years,\u00a0the Lassen pack\u2019s success shows promise for further recovery in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The eight pups from this year\u2019s litter join their mother, father, and four older half-siblings from prior litters \u2013 increasing the family\u2019s size to at least 14 wolves according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nrm.dfg.ca.gov\/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=180715&amp;inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gray Wolves in California: female, yearling and pups\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhBOTp1IyI0?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption>The Lassen Pack and Pups in June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the original father of the Lassen pack sired the pups born in 2017-2019, the breeding male has not been detected with the pack since spring 2019. According to CDFW, a different adult male with black fur began traveling with the Lassen pack in June of 2019, and genetic analysis of 2020 pup scats (a.k.a. poop) show the black wolf is the new breeding male.<br \/>\nHe is not related to other known California wolves, and his origin is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Lassen Pack! May you continue to make history!<\/p>\n<h3>A Wild Homecoming \u2013 Wolves\u2019 Return to California<\/h3>\n<p>When Oregon wolf OR-7 crossed into the \u201cGolden State\u201d in December 2011, he became the first confirmed wild wolf in California since wolves were eradicated from the state 1924. It was an epic journey for the then lone wolf; he wandered more than 300 miles from his original home in northeast Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>During the spring of 2014, a future long-term wolf population in California was looking likely when close to the state border in Oregon\u2019s Rogue River \u2013 Siskiyou National Forest, remote cameras captured photographs of OR-7 along with a female wolf, and later two pups. In response to the approaching wolf family, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to protect California\u2019s wolves under the state Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n<p>Although OR-7 was the first gray wolf to temporarily call California home in nearly a century, other wolves have since followed his lead. In 2015, the CDFW confirmed the Shasta Pack was in the state, a family consisting of two adults and five pups; by May of 2016 the family had vanished. In 2017, the CDFW confirmed a second wolf family, the Lassen Pack, which lives in Lassen National Forest.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being protected on the state level, all wolves in California are afforded federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf Conservation Center Ambassador Wolf Nikai in 2014 California\u2019s only known existing wolf family, the Lassen Pack, has given birth to pups for the fourth consecutive year! The pack welcomed four pups in 2017, five in 2018, four in 2019, and eight in 2020! Beyond proving both fruitful and resilient, as California\u2019s second confirmed family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-142722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166678,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142722\/revisions\/166678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}