California Wolf Foundation

08/20/2026

Collaborators across the north state are coming together to offer "Less than Lethal" training workshops for livestock producers ranching in wolf country. There are several workshops planned throughout September and early October. Registration is required and includes classroom and live fire training. Please register here for Alturas and Susanville or contact your local UCCE Livestock Advisor for locations near you or if you have questions. https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=49807

08/20/2026

Open to public attendance! This will be a monumental day in California wildlife connectivity.

See you there!

08/20/2026

Tracking 101! 🐺🐾

08/14/2026

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08/13/2026

In honor of today being , here’s an update on Californias oldest known wolf pack, the Lassen Pack.

The Lassen Pack which produced its first litter in 2017, had at least 4 pups born this year. The breeding female this year is again LAS09F, a gray wolf who was born to the Lassen Packs original breeding pair herself in 2018. The breeding male this year is again LAS16M, who dispersed to California from outside the state and joined the Lassen Pack in June 2019. LAS16M, who was formally a black wolf, is now almost silver in color as he’s aged. He is also the oldest known wolf in California currently, and he and LAS09F have reproduced litters together consecutively since 2020.

The Lassen Pack currently has 8 wolves (the breeding pair, two additional adults/yearlings and 4 pups). So far as well, they have not been implicated in no known confirmed wolf predations on livestock in 2026. You may have read in the news recently about the Lassen Pack regarding the recent UC Davis study released of their diet consisting largely cattle. The aim in addressing this point is to give additional context on the Lassen Pack.

The study which occurred during the summer months of 2022 and 2023, could not differentiate from the s**t samples they collected if it was from cattle the wolves actually killed or cattle the wolves were scavenging. Summer 2022 followed several months after the 2021 Dixie Fire ravaged through the Lassen Pack territory, which was the 2nd largest wildfire in California history. During the summer of 2022, the Lassen Pack used a different summer range which was perhaps due to local deer distribution changes resulting from the Dixie Fire, and were scavenging off of cattle in predation investigations released that summer. We shared several of those examples of the Lassen Pack wolves observed scavenging cattle, with the cause of deaths of the cattle confirmed to NOT be wolf from predations.

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=202855&inline

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=203102&inline

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=203104&inline

The following year in summer 2023, the samples showed a smaller consumption of meat from cows. Cattle showed up in 55% of f***l samples accounted for 50% of their diet. The Lassen Pack that year was more consistently consuming natural prey sources such as deer. That is not to say there hasn’t been confirmed documentation of chronic predation from wolves in California on livestock, such as with the former Beyem Seyo Pack last year. But the Lassen Pack generally speaking rarely has been known to predate on livestock.

Photo is of members of the Lassen Pack taken by Morgan Heim in 2020, this post was written by John Marchwick.

Sources

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=202877&inline

https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=247120

https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article316361614.html

08/13/2026

We’ll be there! Come join us!

Mark your calendars, because next month Placer Nature Center is celebrating 35 years! Since 1991, PNC has been a hub for environmental education in the Sierra Foothills.

On Saturday September 26, Placer Nature Center will be hosting an anniversary party on our property from 10am-4pm. Come early for the wild bird experience at 11am, followed by presentations from local organizations, docent-led trail walks, games and more!

Then, join us on Sunday October 4th @ 4pm for a bingo night at Crooked Lane Brewing! This fundraiser will help PNC stay strong for another 35 years.

We are planning a raffle and silent auction for these events and are still looking for prize donations from the community, and especially local businesses. Contact us to get involved!