Current Numbers: 6
Pack Status: Active. Designated in 2018.
The Butte Creek Pack was confirmed as a pack when two wolves were confirmed in 2018. One of the pair was a female disperser from the Touchet Pack (collared in Oregon, and known as OR35), who paired with an unknown wolf. She had previously been the breeding female of the Touchet Pack, but dispersed from that area into the new Butte Creek territory.
The pack’s current range is a territory bordering or overlapping those of the Grouse Flats, Tucannon, and Touchet Packs in southeast Washington, just along the Oregon border. Both the Grouse Flats Pack and the Butte Creek Pack are known to use parts of the Wenaha Management Unit just across the border into Oregon.
In 2019, four wolves and a successful breeding pair were confirmed in the pack.
A breeding pair was not confirmed in 2020; however, six wolves were confirmed in the 2021 annual report. Four wolves were confirmed in 2022, and in both 2023 and 2024, six wolves and a successful breeding pair were confirmed.
