Overview
- A lone female identified as BEY03F is inside Sequoia National Park, which is the first publicly known wolf presence there in more than 100 years, according to California wildlife officials.
- State biologists captured and fitted BEY03F with a satellite collar in May 2025 after she dispersed from the Beyem Seyo pack where she was born in 2023.
- Tracking shows she has traveled hundreds of miles, reaching Los Angeles County in February before moving through Kern, Tulare, and Inyo counties en route to Sequoia.
- The state’s public wolf map displays broad, delayed location blocks rather than real-time pinpoints to limit poaching risk and to give ranchers time to use nonlethal deterrents.
- Gray wolves are protected as endangered in California, yet recovery has brought ranching conflicts, including CDFW’s 2025 killing of four Beyem Seyo wolves after cattle losses, and officials have not linked BEY03F to those depredations.