The First Wolf in Sequoia National Park in 100 Years #shorts #sequoia #wolf

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Last Sunday, for the first time in over 100 years, a wolf walked into Sequoia National Park.

[00:00:05]Her name is BEY03F, [music] and she was born in 2023 to the Bay Area Pack in Northern California, where she has spent the last several months walking south in search of a mate. Earlier this year, she became the first wolf [music] documented in LA County in modern times before turning around, crossing the Tehachapis into Inyo County, and finally, [music] on May 17th, triggering a collar ping near Mount Pickering inside the park. But let's take it back a century, back to when wolves still ranged across the Sierra Nevada, the Central Valley, and the coastal ranges before California [music] started paying people to kill them.

[00:00:36]Between state bounty laws and federal poisoning campaigns, the population collapsed within a generation, and the last wolf [music] taken in California was trapped in Lassen County in 1924.

[00:00:46]They bounced back on their own, though, starting in 2011 with a male called OR-7, who walked a thousand miles south from Oregon, crossed the state line, and eventually [music] started a pack whose descendants include BEY03F herself. She is still inside [music] the national park today, probably alone and still looking for a mate. But for the first time since [music] before the National Park Service existed, a wild wolf is once again moving through the giant sequoias.