Five years after the first gray wolf (OR-7) arrived in California in 2011 — almost 90 years after they were hunted to extinction statewide — the CDFW launched its gray wolf conservation plan ...

That's when a wolf (OR-7) left Oregon and began a four-month wander through Northern California. He traveled an average of 15 miles per day through Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Butte counties ...