Pack status: No longer active in Washington. Designated in 2009.
The Diamond Pack is no longer considered a Washington wolf pack, as their pack territory has moved into Idaho.
Although the Diamond Pack was confirmed as a gray wolf pack in 2009 in Washington, wolves from the pack were observed back in 2007. The breeding male (WA398M) was captured and fitted with a GPS collar in July 2009. Two small pups were also captured, ear-tagged, and released that year. In 2009, the breeding pair produced six pups, and at least four of them survived to 2010.
DNA analysis of the breeding male (WA398M) links his ancestry to the naturally recolonizing southern Alberta-northwestern Montana wolf population.
The battery expired on WA398M’s collar in July 2010, but a yearling female (WA376F) was captured and GPS radio-collared that June. Three other yearling wolves (WA378M, WA380F, WA382F) were captured and ear-tagged, but were not collared. One small pup was caught and released. The pack produced six pups in 2010 and numbered 12 wolves at the end of the year.
One regular tracking collar remained in the pack on adult female WA013F, who was captured and collared in June 2011.
WA382F was legally killed by an Idaho trapper 300 yards from the Washington border.
In 2015, the pack moved its territory to Idaho and was no longer considered a Washington wolf pack.
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Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife – Diamond Pack
