The wolf OR-7
is seen last spring on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in
Southwest Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. (AP Photo/Oregon Department of
Fish and WildlifeMay 3, 2014)
MEDFORD — State biologists say
Oregon’s famous wandering wolf, OR-7, appears to be denned up for a
second set of pups in the southern Cascades.
The wolf’s satellite tracking collar has
finally died, but state Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists are
still getting a faint signal from the radio portion of the collar, the Medford Mail Tribune reported .
They can track that with hand-held antennas, and the signal indicates OR-7’s pack has stopped moving around.
Biologist Mark Vargas says biologists won’t disturb the wolves to check for pups until the denning season ends.
OR-7 became famous as his GPS collar, put
on in 2011, showed him trekking across Oregon and into Northern
California in search of a mate, which he found. Their first pups arrived
last year.
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