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Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED   » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs Business NEWS NOW   Our View: King's other message       ...       Herb Rothschild Jr.: King's provocation       ...       Have we recovered from the Great Recession?       ...       Our View: King's other message       ...       Herb Rothschild Jr.: King's provocation       ...       Have we recovered from the Great Recession?       ...           Wolf OR-7 and family named the Rogue pack Comment DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Jan. 7, 2015 @ 1:05 pm Posted Jan. 7, 2015 @ 1:05 pm »  Social News It's official: Southwestern Oregon now has its own wolf pack. Wolf OR-7, his mate and three pups have been designated the Rogue pack by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and they remain the only known wolves in Southwest Oregon, according to the ODFW. The name is derived from the upper Rogue River watershed and the Rogue Wildlife Management Unit in eastern Jackson County, where the wolves spend the majority of their time in the South Cascades, says Michelle Dennehy, spokeswoman for the ODFW's wolf program. Most other Oregon wolf packs are similarly named, Dennehy says. The territory where the wolves roam had been known as an area of known wolf activity, but it was reclassified this week under the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan, according to the ODFW. Under the plan, a pack is a group of wolves, usually consisting of a male, female and their offspring from one or more generations. For purposes of monitoring, a pack may be defined as a group of four or more wolves traveling together in winter, according to the plan. ODFW biologists are in the midst of counting Oregon's wolves and will announce those counts when available, Dennehy says. Last year's end-of-the-year count showed 64 known wolves, Dennehy says. There is no final count on how many pups are in the Rogue Pack, Dennehy says. However, federal biologists have previously said they counted at least three. OR-7 was a young member of Oregon's Imnaha pack when he was collared in February 2011, eight months before he left the pack in a "dispersal" trek in search of a mate and new territory. He traveled south and west until he crossed the Cascade crest, becoming the first wolf in Western Oregon since 1937. He later spent more than a year traveling in Northern California, where he was the Golden State's first known wolf since 1924. For close to two years, he has stayed within his home territory of eastern Jackson, western Klamath and southeastern Douglas counties, according to the ODFW. — Mark Freeman     DailyTidings.com Writer Posted Jan. 7, 2015 @ 1:05 pm » Comment or view comments   Reader Reaction »  STAY INFORMED   Email NewsLetter   Sign Up Today   Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. calendar Connect with DailyTidings.com Facebook Twitter RSS Back to top Reader Services Reader Services home Subscriptions Subscriber controls Contact us Submissions Photos Events Letters to the editor Corrections Alerts Email alerts RSS feeds Text Alerts Advertise Media Kit Home Products and services Ad rates Advertising contacts Mail Tribune Daily Tidings The Nickel Shop Our Valley Blogs Stay Informed   Email newsletter   Sign Up Today   Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. 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