August 24, 2011 in City

Trail cameras show new Walla Walla pack

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This Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife trail camera photo taken Thursday shows a wolf in the Blue Mountains in eastern Umatilla County.
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Trail cameras have captured candid photos of some new wolves roaming in northeastern Oregon’s Umatilla County.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday two of the images, taken this month, are the first photos of members of the new Walla Walla pack that seems to be forming in the border area between Oregon and Washington.

Department spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said biologists have been seeing tracks since last winter, but these are the first photos to confirm the wolves are in Umatilla County. It is not known yet whether the group is breeding, and what its range is.

“We are still trying to sort out what that pack is doing,” she said.

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