MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — For the first time, Skagit County will be included in the state’s annual wolf count after a lone male gray wolf was collared there last June.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports it is the first wolf the Department of Fish and Wildlife has documented west of the North Cascades and is still the only one it knows of.
This is the ninth year in a row the agency has seen growth in the gray wolf population with about 122 wolves spread throughout 22 packs in Washington.
Wolves are considered an endangered species in this area of the state.
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