The Druids have six pups and other
northern range wolf news

June 20, 2005

Kathie Lynch is spending the summer in Yellowstone below are her latest observations and accounts of wolf activities on the northern range. Perhaps the most interesting is that the Druids pups have been seen. There are six of them.

Biologist Lynch writes:

The Druids have been around in Lamar on a bull elk kill a couple of days this week, and the flight saw six black Druid pups at their den up Cache Creek. 

The Slough Creek pack has moved most of their (14?) pups north.  As of yesterday morning [June 18], only two black Slough pups remained visible from the Slough Creek campground road, and really you need to climb WAY up the hill (east of the campground road) to have a good view.  We did see 5 adults (4 yearlings and 377M) come in with big pieces of what looked like an elk calf. and they also regurgitated for the pups. 

A couple of days ago, two Slough adults tried to get those last pups to move too, but a black bear arrived and they chased it up a tree three times!  

Another morning, a makeshift group of two Leopolds (287M and 468M) and one Geode (483F) came into Slough and attacked a Slough yearling (called "Sharp Right" due to the turn her tail takes), shaking her violently by the throat for five minutes, but she escaped, swam the creek and survived, apparently unhurt!  The Agates have been visible up Antelope Creek above Tower and the Gibbon Meadow pack has been seen several times recently. I think the wolves in Hayden Valley have been seen too--I'd love to see that white wolf over there.