State biologists gave a sequential designation to each wolf with a collar.
When wolves began swimming the Snake River from Idaho to Oregon in the 1990s, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife started live-trapping the growing wolf population in Oregon and fitting them with GPS tracking collars that provide daily satellite position reports. Wolves were reintroduced to Idaho and expanded their range into the northern Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest. Wolves in the United States were protected under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1978 as they were in danger of going extinct and needed protection to aid their recovery. OR-7 was not observed at the 2020 winter count of wolves in Oregon, and as of April 2020 is presumed to have died. Meanwhile, other wolves have migrated into the mountainous cross-border region, and relatives of OR–7 have formed two packs in northern California. The batteries in OR-7's tracking collar expired in October 2015, and monitoring the pack since then has depended on trail cameras and live sightings. In early 2015, officials designated the two adult wolves and their offspring as the Rogue Pack, the first wolf pack in western Oregon and the state's ninth overall since wolves returned to Oregon from Idaho in the 1990s. It is not known when the two wolves met, but DNA tests of fecal samples showed that she is related to wolves in two of the eight packs in northeastern Oregon. He was the first confirmed wild wolf in western Oregon since 1947 and the first in California since 1924.īy 2014, OR-7 had settled in the Rogue River watershed in the southern Cascade Range east of Medford, Oregon, with a mate. After the wolf dispersed from his natal pack in 2011, he wandered generally southwest for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) through Oregon and northern California.
state of Oregon to the southern Cascade Range. OR-7, also known as Journey, was a male gray wolf that was electronically tracked as he migrated from the Wallowa Mountains in the northeastern corner of the U.S. OR-7 in Jackson County, Oregon, in May 2014
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