{"id":1999697,"date":"2023-08-14T01:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-have-identified-a-new-pack-of-endangered-gray-wolves-in-california\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T01:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T05:16:51","slug":"researchers-have-identified-a-new-pack-of-endangered-gray-wolves-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-have-identified-a-new-pack-of-endangered-gray-wolves-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"New endangered gray wolf pack found in California, say researchers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresearchers-have-identified-a-new-pack-of-endangered-gray-wolves-in-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gray Wolves\u2063 Return to California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada<\/h2>\n<p>In an exciting discovery, a new pack of gray wolves\u200c has been spotted in California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada, hundreds\u200b of miles away \u200bfrom any other known population of this endangered species. This news has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/researchers-have-identified-a-new-pack-of-endangered-gray-wolves-in-california\/\" title=\"New endangered gray wolf pack found in California, say researchers.\">wildlife officials howling<\/a> with delight, considering that gray wolves were hunted to extinction in \u2063California \u200cin the 1920s. Only \u2064in \u2062recent years have a \u200dfew wolves made their \u2064way back into the state from out-of-state packs.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting of a wolf last month in \u200cSequoia National Forest led researchers to investigate further. They found tracks and collected DNA samples from fur and droppings, confirming the presence of a new pack, consisting\u200c of an adult female and\u200c her\u200c four offspring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border border-[#D3D3D3] px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\">\n<div class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/a-dingo-or-a-wongari-state-adopts-indigenous-name-for-australian-icon-5458748\">A Dingo or a Wongari?: State Adopts\u2062 Indigenous Name for Australian Icon<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-[14px] leading-[18px] text-[#737373]\">8\/11\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/a-dingo-or-a-wongari-state-adopts-indigenous-name-for-australian-icon-5458748\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/science\/florida-objects-to-what-it-says-are-restrictive-federal-power-plant-goals-5458058\">Florida Objects \u200bto What It\u200b Says Are Restrictive\u200c Federal Power Plant Goals<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"text-[14px] leading-[18px] text-[#737373]\">8\/10\/2023<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[120px]\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/science\/florida-objects-to-what-it-says-are-restrictive-federal-power-plant-goals-5458058\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new pack of gray wolves is located at least\u2063 200 miles away from the nearest known pack \u200din Lassen Park, northeastern California. Another pack is also based in Northern California. These gray wolves are protected by state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waffle-arizona-house-speaker-claims-they-cant-enforce-constitution-wont-commit-to-calling-legislative-hearing\/\" title=\"WAFFLE: Arizona House Speaker Claims They Can\u2019t Enforce Constitution, Won\u2019t Commit To Calling Legislative Hearing\">federal law<\/a> under the Endangered Species Act, making \u2063it illegal to harm or kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Through DNA testing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-evidence-prominent-anti-confederate-statue-activist-is-descendant-of-robert-e-lee-despite-claims-report\/\" title=\"\u2018No Evidence\u2019 Prominent Anti-Confederate Statue Activist Is Descendant Of Robert E. Lee Despite Claims: Report\">researchers discovered<\/a> that the adult \u200bfemale in the new pack\u2062 is a direct descendant of a wolf known as OR7. In\u2062 2011, OR7 crossed the state line from Oregon, becoming the first wolf in nearly a century to establish California as \u200dpart of its range.\u2064 Although OR7 later returned \u200cto Oregon and is believed to have died there, its legacy lives on through \u2062its descendant.<\/p>\n<p>While no adult\u2063 male was found in the new pack, genetic \u200cprofiles of the offspring indicate their\u200d lineage from the Lassen Pack, according to wildlife officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pack of gray wolves, far from any known population, has been found in California&#8217;s Sierra Nevada. This exciting discovery brings joy to researchers, as the native species was previously hunted to extinction in the state during the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1999698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}