Wednesday, September 5, 2018

"The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has confirmed that a remote camera on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation captured images of two Wolf pups on Aug. 19".............. The pair of southern Wasco County adult wolves who have created a territory south of Mount Hood have produced at least two pups this year, first caught on remote camera on the reservation Aug. 10 and again on the 19th"............... "Wolves in Wasco County and anywhere west of Highways 395-78-95 are protected by the federal Endangered Species Act".............. "ODFW, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are working together to monitor this group of wolves"..........."The tribes’ Wildlife Department said the single male wolf first was spotted on the reservation in 2014 and a mate was seen two years later"..............."Reservation biologists said it was the first verified known wolf reproduction on the reservation since the mid-1940s"



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Wolf Pups Born In Oregon's Cascade Mountains

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says it marks the first known wolf reproduction in the northern part of the Cascade Mountains since wolves returned to the state in the 2000s.
Photo shows the breeding male of White River wolves with two pups, taken Aug. 19 by remote camera on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Photo courtesy of Wildlife Department BNR-Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.




A camera on the Warm Springs Reservation first captured images of the wolf pups earlier this month.























State biologists estimated there were 124 wolves in Oregon in 2017.
Wolves are a protected species in western Oregon.

WARM SPRINGS INDIAN RESERVATION















August 19 trailcam photo of one of the newborn wolf pups



















Adult wolf in Warm Springs













 West of the red demarcation line, wolves are both federally
and state protected...........right of the line, wolves are only
state protected and not on the Federal Protected List


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