Collared gray wolf in California ventured toward Lake Tahoe's resorts

[Judi Lynn]

By Peter Fimrite
Updated 8:13 pm, Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The wandering daughter of California’s famed first wolf made a pioneering trek into the Bay Area’s favorite mountain playground, extending the reach of the wild canines almost as far as the Sierra ski resorts surrounding Lake Tahoe, wildlife biologists said Wednesday.

The 2-year-old wolf, known as OR-54, was tracked using her GPS collar to within 1½-miles of the Boreal Mountain ski area, off Interstate 80 at Donner Summit, making her the first wild gray wolf confirmed in Nevada County in at least a century.

The sporadic signal, which logs a location roughly every three hours, captured the animal at 3 p.m. on Friday traveling south along the ridges west of the town of Truckee, in Nevada County, toward Boreal, a ski area popular in the summer for hiking, mountain biking and camping.

Kent Laudon, a wolf specialist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said he doesn’t know from the spotty signal whether the wolf crossed I-80. The next location, which came six hours later, showed that the wolf had turned back north and crossed into Sierra County, where she had been hanging out before.

More:
https://www.chron.com/science/article/Collared-gray-wolf-in-California-traveled-as-far-12992517.php

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Not surprized.

Was in the area couple days ago. The High Country in in tough shape. Some of the areas are so dry while others still have decent snow cover.

Wolf's have plenty of small animals to choose from in and around Incline Village as well as Tahoe Village .