Pup counts are coming in from Yellowstone Park, but slowly because of the long cold wet season.
I thought perhaps 2008 might be another pup crash year because the Slough Creek Pack had a number of apparently pregnant females yet has only one surviving pup. Moreover no pups have been seen yet with the Druids.
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Continue Reading →Because people know their story and have seen them so often, the fate of the Hayden wolf pack is of general interest to those who follow the Yellowstone Park wolves. It looks like their future, however, will not be in the Park, perhaps due to too much competition from other wolves. They were last located […]
Continue Reading →Although I expect Kathie Lynch may soon have a detailed report, I got information about a few items today.
The Bechler Pack of SW Yellowstone (the only pack down there) was finally seen. It had eleven members and was several miles south of the Park near the Idaho/Wyoming border. While they will go back to […]
Continue Reading →I haven’t gathered any news about Yellowstone Park wolves lately due to pressing controversies, but Kathie Lynch told me that the surviving Haydens were seen about a month ago near the high bridge east of Mammoth — “1 gray adult, 2 gray pups, and everybody’s favorite black pup.”
I’ll try to get some news soon.
Continue Reading →Tom Mazzarisi, ranger at Madison in YNP told me that things have not gone well for the 5 remaining Haydens who had been hanging out in the Madison River since being attacked and driven from the Canyon area by the larger Mollies Pack.
He told me something I didn’t know — last winter they spent […]
Continue Reading →The Haydens have largely survived are have been found nowhere near their old territory, where yesterday 15 !! Mollies were hanging out.
The remnants of the pack were near Sevenmile Bridge on the Madison River about 10 miles east of West Yellowstone. There were 5 Haydens spotted, the only clearly identified one was the black […]
Continue Reading →This latest information again comes courtesy of Kim Kaiser who has been in contact with Leo Keeler who has been in the area. This is the email he got today. Thank you, Kim!
This will be about it for the year, because they will be closing the roads, so I hope they make it.
Keeler […]
Continue Reading →Earlier story: Mollies Pack kills Hayden alpha pair
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Dan Stahler of the Yellowstone Park wolf team told me today that Hayden, Mollies and Gibbon packs have all been in Hayden Valley the last weeks because it is a major elk migration corridor from summer range to the south to […]
Mollies Pack has killed the well known alpha pair of the Hayden Valley Pack.
I don’t have the details as to how it happened yet, but the Hayden Pack was being increasingly pressed by the larger Gibbon Pack from the SW and west and Mollies Pack from the SE.
Remaining, but with their fate not […]
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