A Grey wolf has been documented in Tuolumne County!
For the first time in over a hundred years, a grey wolf has been documented in Tuolumne County! Experts believe the one-year-old male, which was wearing a tracking collar, has travelled south from Oregon in search of a mate. This is the furthest south in California that a wolf has been seen since they were extirpated from the area in the 1920s.
Why would a river trust care about a wolf? What happens in our forest affects the health of our watershed!
The absence of wolves over the last century means that an important part of the upper watershed's ecosystem has been missing. Predators like this act as a check on the populations of wildlife that they prey on, and these relationships play a vital role in maintaining the health of a landscape as a whole.
This wolf’s return to the central Sierra Nevada gives scientists hope that the species may once again flourish in the region.
