State wildlife officials have captured and released another five Gray Wolves after fitting them with GPS tracking collars. The captures took place between January 12th and 20th in Lassen, Modoc, Siskiyou, Shasta and Tehama Counties. The Wolves are part of the Whaleback and Harvey Packs. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been using helicopters to make the captures, including two in Northwestern Shasta County. Although five wolves were captured and released, one adult female from the Harvey pack suffered injuries during the process and died. Over the last decade 38 Wolves statewide have been captured and collared and 13 of them remain active. The collars transmit location data to scientists daily for up to three years and then the collars automatically drop off. Wolf data is fed into the publicly-accessible online wolf tracker mapping tool so ranchers can try to avoid interaction with their stock.
-Steve Gibson