Give em room and Wolves will multiply and recolonize their historical haunts...........That is what is happening in Washington State as for the first time in decades, a male and female wolf have "packed up in the Western Cascades near Diobsud Creek, in an area south of Baker Lake and north of Highway 20 near the town of Marblemount..........This aptly named Diobsud Creek Pack brings the Wolf population up to an estimated 126(15 breeding packs), up from just 10 wolves in the state in 2008( an average increase of 28%)............The 124 wolves that have now virtually saturated available territory in the north eastern part of Washington have restored THE LANDSCAPE OF FEAR PARADIGM, with Mule deer beginning to change their home ranges to avoid wolves"..............."Mule deer in wolf territory now favor higher-elevation terrain that’s brushier, steeper and rockier(wolves prefer flat open terrain to run down their prey), according to a U. of Washington study, which was published last month in the academic journal Oecologia"..........."Biologists are yet to provide information on how the Diobsud Pack is impacting deer"

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April 4, 2019; Evan Bush

Wolf pack living west of Cascade Mountains for first time in decades

The male member of the Diobsud Creek Pack in Skagit County. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife says biologists have documented a pack of the animals living west of the Cascades for the first time in decades. (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)