Livestock have left the public lands of Wyoming for the season and, as a result, the wolves are little threatened by control.  Only the Daniel Pack is in trouble. After recently reappearing when the pack was thought to have been poisoned out, only to kill some cattle, the Pack, now down to about 7 wolves after government control, has been harassing horses near Daniel.

Today Mike Jimenez, federal wolf manager for Wyoming, told me that had chased the pack away from the horses after hitting them with rubber bullets.

A few dispersing wolves are also hanging around in the Upper Green River area and near Cora, occasionally being tempted by livestock.

As for the rest of the packs (you might want to compare this to the report of Oct. 16):

Teton Pack: currently at 8 to 10 members. They have moved into their traditional winter range in the Gros Ventre River and Mt. Leidy Highlands area. The pack has lost about 4 dispersers. These scattered wolves have been seen from the National Elk Refuge north to Pacific Creek in GTNP and the Teton Wilderness.

Washakie Pack: longstanding pack survives another summer mostly in the DuNoir where they nibbled at livestock and got controlled, including, ironically the wolves Jimenez collared last March south of Meeteetse where he was accused of "planting them" and suffered much legal harassment from the Park County wingnuts.
Over the last year or so the Washakie Pack seemed to have split into two groups, but Jimenez thinks they have probably recombined. The pack is in its usual winter pattern -- from the Dunoir to the Wiggins Fork area.

Greybull Pack: this pack too nibbled a bit at livestock this summer, but spends most of its time in the Washakie Wilderness or near to it, east of Meeteetse (5-7 wolves).

Carter Mountain Pack: to the north of the Greybull Pack, this female and her 5 pups survived well after the alpha male was controlled for livestock killing.

Absaroka Pack: this rejuvenated pack between Cody and Yellowstone Park continues to do well after being almost (or maybe completely) wiped out by mange.

Sunlight Basin Pack: this pack still has mange, but not as bad as last year.

Beartooth Pack: there has only been one visual sighting of this hard-to-see pack this year. The assumption is they are fine, but the number of wolves is not known.

Owl Creek Pack: this was a trio last winter and this spring, but the non-alpha adult was killed by the government after getting into livestock. The two surviving adults raised 4 pups this year.

Wolf or pair near LaBarge: a lone wolf or possibly a pair has killed three sheep near LaBarge. This wolf (or another) has also been seen in the Ham's Fork.

Jimenez said the wolf population is about stable. He predicted a 6% increase this year, not much in a population of 80 wolves. He said the 6% was within the margin of error.

I guess Wyoming's governor has a hard time understanding this.  I see he recently complained that as long as Wyoming's lawsuit over management drags on "Each delay simply creates more wolves on the ground." Yeh, right!