Here is the latest Idaho wolf update from Timm Kaminski, Idaho Gray Wolf Project Leader, Nez Perce Tribal Wolf Recovery Team. I have distilled his report so that it fits into my earlier web page Idaho updates. Please compare this to the update of September 17 . . .  Ralph Maughan.

Wolves B7M and B11F (a.k.a. the "Running Creek pair"), released north of US Highway 12, August 2, on the North Fork of the Clearwater River, have stopped moving southeastward. Good news! They were most recently located at Moose Lake (Idaho) in the Bitterroot Mountains, deep in the wilderness about twenty miles west of Hamilton, Montana. Perhaps all that shuttling about has prevented their return to the Big Hole Valley of SW Montana.

The Selway Pack was located in late August at Painted Rocks Reservoir, Montana. Next they moved a bit to the southeast into Overwitch Creek. Then they moved back into Idaho to near Salmon Mountain, where they remain in the Frank Church/River of No Return Wilderness.

The Kelly Creek Pack was located near Cayuse Lake It continues to move back and forth between Kelly Creek and Crooked Creek. This is in Idaho. They haven't wandered over into Montana now for a while.

The Chamberlain Pack was located as usual, very deep in the Frank Church Wilderness. First on McCalla Ridge. Then they moved southeast into Cottonwood Creek near Cold Meadows. On September 25, they were in a tributary of Chamberlain Creek -- Deer Creek. This is a pack of ten to 12 wolves.

The wolf team has still not determined if wolf B20F has a previously-overlooked litter of pups. She has localized for some time in the vast interior of the Frank Church -- at last report in Chamberlain Creek south of its confluence with Vanderbilt Creek.

No name pack (a.k.a. the Bear Valley Pack), composed of wolves B-28-M, B-30-F and Wolf B-19-M was located on September 25 just southwest of Bull Trout Lake.

The Landmark Pack, which is usually located in one of the tributaries of Elk Creek, was this time located in Rock Creek, a tributary of Johnson Creek. This is just to the west of the Frank Church Wilderness. Country where the Landmark and the Bear Valley Packs hang out (Ayers Meadow).

The Stanley Pack , B23F and B27M and their six pups, was located and observed in Elk Meadow, a beautiful meadow on the north end of the Sawtooth Mountains and a place that has been recently recovered from livestock overgrazing.

The Jureano Mountain Pack, wolves B-25-F and B-32-M and their 6 pups was located on the south side of Haystack Mountain. Five of their pups are black and one is gray. The radio-collared pup weighed 60 pounds as did the pup that was collared in the Moyer Creek Pack. They seem to be living very well!

The Moyer Creek Pack, wolves B-29-M and B-37-F and their five pups finally moved out of Moyer Creek and into Castle Creek, rugged country on the southeast edge of the Frank Church. One of the Moyer Creek pups is radio collared.

Wolves B-35-F and Wolf B-18-M were located at the head of the Yankee Fork (of the Salmon River) drainage.

Wolf B-36-F was located in north of The Meadows in the White Cloud Mountains.

Wolf B31-M, who was involved with the killing of some 28 sheep in two incidents near Warren Summit north of McCall, has still not returned to that area. No. 31 was most recently located (Sept. 25) near Bear Pete Mountain. This is the only livestock depredation from the Idaho-reintroduced wolves this year.