According to a report by The LA Times,<\/a> the \u201chistory-making\u201d wolf continued her landmark journey further, entering Inyo County around 7 a.m. on Sunday, about 20 miles south of Mt. Whitney. State wildlife officials say she is the first documented wolf to enter the Eastern Sierra County in more than a century.<\/p>\n ![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wolftrailcamera3-800x524.jpg\")
Video still of BEY03F that later entered Los Angeles County in February 2026 | California Department of Fish and Wildlife <\/p>\n
Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, tells the news outlet that by early Monday afternoon, BEY03F had moved deeper into the county, west of the community of Bartlett. The wolf crossed the Sierra Nevada in about three to four days.<\/p>\n
Experts say the wolf is likely still searching for a mate, which may explain her movements. Breeding season runs from mid- to late winter, and wolves are fertile only once a year, around Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably what we\u2019re seeing is that she\u2019s like, \u2018Well, I didn\u2019t breed this year, but I do still need to find a mate,\u2019\u201d Hunnicutt tells The LA Times. \u201cSo she will continue to travel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunnicutt said it is also possible, though \u201cless likely,\u201d that the wolf is pregnant while on the move, which could suggest unusual circumstances such as the loss of a mate. Wolves typically begin giving birth around mid-April and are largely monogamous.<\/p>\n
Gray wolves once numbered between 250,000 and two million across the contiguous United States but were nearly eliminated by the mid-20th century due to trapping, habitat loss, and hunting. They were wiped out in California by the 1920s.<\/p>\n
Populations have since rebounded in recent decades, supported by protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the 1990s. Today, about 6,000 gray wolves live in the contiguous United States, including at least 70 in California, where there are nine confirmed packs.<\/p>\n
Despite the recovery, gray wolves remain endangered in much of the contiguous United States, including California.<\/p>\n
Image credits: All photos via California Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remote cameras show a three-year-old female gray wolf, named BEY03F, as it makes its landmark journey into Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14722,181141,181142,111526,90,14724,56,54,55,4407,29620],"class_list":{"0":"post-520575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-cameratrap","9":"tag-graywolf","10":"tag-losangelescounty","11":"tag-remotecamera","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-trailcamera","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-wildlife","18":"tag-wolf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Three](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/remote-cameras-wolf-800x420.jpg\")
Remote cameras show a three-year-old female gray wolf, named BEY03F, as it makes its landmark journey into Los Angeles County | California Department of Fish and Wildlife <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wolftrailcamera1-800x555.jpg\")
A remote camera shows BEY03F, wandering in Tulare County for the first time on April 16, 2025. The wolf returned there again in January 2026 | California Department of Fish and Wildlife <\/p>\n![\"Black](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wolftrailcamera2-800x557.jpg\")
A remote camera shows BEY03F wandering in Tulare County on January 13, 2026 | California Department of Fish and Wildlife <\/p>\n