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<\/p>\nA wolf made history last Saturday when she wandered into the mountains of Los Angeles County, where her kind hadn\u2019t been documented in more than a century.<\/p>\n
She had come seeking a mate. Mid-to-late winter marks breeding season for wolves. The broad-muzzled canids are only fertile once a year \u2014 right around Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
But the 3-year-old wolf \u2014 known as BEY03F \u2014 is spending the romantic holiday in Kern County. She kept her time in L.A. brief, having traveled north over the county line by Monday morning, per a state-run tracker of GPS-collared wolves.<\/p>\n
Now, time is of the essence for her to find a hubby.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike dogs who can mate a couple times a year, come into heat a couple times a year, wolves aren\u2019t that way,\u201d said Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. \u201cSo it\u2019s really important for them to find a mate before this window of time. She\u2019s really kind of on the border here. It\u2019s possible she could find a mate still within the next, like two weeks or so, and still be fertile. But time is slipping away and the clock is ticking.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Last known location of BEY03F.<\/p>\n
(California Department of Fish and Wildlife)<\/p>\n
BEY03F, affectionately called \u201cbae\u201d by some<\/a>, hails from far northeastern California, in Plumas County, where she was born into the Beyem Seyo pack in 2023.<\/p>\n Last year, that pack made headlines for making an unprecedented number of livestock attacks \u2014 leading state wildlife officials to euthanize several members. <\/p>\n But BEY03F left her family before that happened, according to John Marchwick of California Wolf Watch, an educational group.<\/p>\n She spent time with the Yowlumni pack, the state\u2019s southernmost group of wolves in Tulare County, where she was collared in May, said Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n She came a long way looking for love. To get from her birthplace to the mountains north of Santa Clarita, she traveled more than 370 miles and walked the length of the Sierra Nevada.<\/p>\n As of Saturday morning, she was just south of State Route 58, the dividing line between the Tehachapi and Sierra Nevada mountains, according to Hunnicutt.<\/p>\n Hunnicutt surmised she was heading north because she didn\u2019t come across signs of other wolves during her southern jaunt. Infrastructure like the Grapevine might\u2019ve also warded her off.<\/p>\n \u201cIf [it] wasn\u2019t there, I\u2019d bet that she would have kept going west into Ventura County,\u201d Hunnicutt said in a text message.<\/p>\n Share via Close extra sharing options <\/p>\n Exactly where she goes from here is a bit of a toss-up. Hunnicutt said she could potentially head back south, but based on her movements, he believes she\u2019ll continue north tomorrow.<\/p>\n \u201cImpossible to say, but keeps me waking up early to look each day!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Unlike mountain lions, wolves need a lot of open space, according to Beth Pratt, California regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation. <\/p>\n That\u2019s not L.A.\u2019s forte.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re never going to see a wolf pack running in Griffith Park,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771109530_920_.jpeg\")
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