The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has designated a new area of wolf activity in the Upper Deschutes wildlife management unit in Klamath and Deschutes counties.
ODFW has monitored a single wolf in the area since August 2021, and in early 2022, tracks of four wolves were found in the area. Biologists have been determining if the activity represented new wolves or wolves from the Indigo Pack, found just south of the area. In early July, a trail cam picked up footage of an adult wolf with five pups, confirming a new group of wolves in the area.
The group could be designated the Upper Deschutes Pack, depending on how many wolves are in the group at the end of the year. As the wolves reside in an area where wolves are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, ODFW encourages livestock producers to use nonlethal measures to reduce potential conflict.
