{"id":456747,"date":"2026-02-08T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456747\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:34:09","slug":"wolf-visits-los-angeles-county-for-first-time-in-100-years-california-wildlife-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/456747\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf visits Los Angeles County for first time in 100 years, California wildlife officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wolf has visited Los Angeles County for the first time in at least 100 years, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They say that a 3-year-old female gray wolf was detected just northwest of Lancaster at around 6 a.m. Saturday morning, marking the first confirmed detection in the county in about a century, said CFDW&#8217;s State Gray Wolf Coordinator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The visit is also the furthest south that a wolf has been tracked in California, according to Hunnicutt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/screenshot-2026-02-07-221903.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-02-07-221903.png \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The 3-year-old female gray wolf when it was collared in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Fish and Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>He says that the wolf was born in Plumas County, which is north of Lake Tahoe and in the Sierra Nevada region near the California-Nevada border. The wolf traversed through much of the Sierra Nevada and was part of a pack in Tulare County, which is located west of Fresno and just north of Bakersfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hunnicutt believes that the wolf dispersed from the pack, as this is typically the time of year when wolves go off to look for mates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/screenshot-2026-02-07-221700.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-02-07-221700.png \" height=\"333\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The wolf when it was captured on CDFW cameras in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Fish and Wildlife<\/p>\n<p>He says that Saturday&#8217;s detection is a &#8220;milestone&#8221; in wolf conservation in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wolf has visited Los Angeles County for the first time in at least 100 years, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-456747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}