Overview
- A collared adult female known as BEY03F, listed on maps as the Yowlumni Disperser, has been detected inside Sequoia National Park in the first publicly known wolf presence there in over 100 years.
- California Wolf Watch verified the location by checking the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s public wolf tracker.
- An ecologist with the California Wolf Foundation said the wolf’s satellite collar logged her entry into the park and that map updates post with a short delay.
- Tracking data show BEY03F was born in 2023 in the Beyem Seyo Pack, moved roughly 370 miles south in 2025, was collared that May within Yowlumni territory, reached Los Angeles County earlier this year, and was in Inyo County in April.
- Gray wolves were wiped out in California in the 1920s, began returning on their own in 2011, are protected under state and federal endangered-species laws, and advocates describe BEY03F as a pioneering disperser as some northern counties report livestock concerns not linked to her.