OR-4 Goes A Courting

As a reporter, I’ll never be one to report on the love lives of Hollywood’s movers and shakers. I don’t think many ranchers were aware of or cared about the recent expensive Italian nuptials of Kim and Kanye. However today we are going to catch up on the love life of one of our region’s more notorious wolves — OR-4 the Alpha male of the Imnaha pack as well as more collaring news.
Oregon Rancher and one of the founders of the Oregon Wolf Education Kerry Tienhaara says
Tienhaara: “He is back in the divide area just east of Joseph. They suspect that he has taken a new mate and that they are denned up and possibly have pups. But there is no confirmation of pups yet.”
Tienhaara says that the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife recently collared a two-year-old male in the Imnaha pack
Tienhaara: “The newly assigned number for him is OR-25. So we will be following him. However there is a problem with the collars — the GPS hasn’t kicked in. It is the same thing that they’ve had a problem with OR-4; we’ve been at least three weeks without a GPS reading on OR-4’s collar. So these collars are not working very well.”