Current Numbers: 6
Pack Status: Active. Designated in 2019.
The Indigo group of wolves was the first documented in Lane County in close to a century, and they are among the few wolves living in western Oregon.
After several years of public wolf sightings in this area, tracks of multiple wolves were found in late 2018. In February 2019, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) trail cameras in the Umpqua National Forest photographed three wolves in the area (see below).
Then, in October 2019, USFWS and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) confirmed that the family had four pups in spring. New photos were released and are included in the gallery below.
In 2019, the pack produced three pups that survived through the end of the year. During the same winter count, they were officially designated as a pack and counted as a breeding pair. A separate wolf was also counted in the northern part of the Indigo Pack’s territory.
In the following 2020 winter count, the Indigo Pack produced one pup that survived to the end of the year, but they were not counted as a breeding pair. There were five wolves counted in the pack and, similar to the previous year, one wolf that is likely not a member of the pack was counted in the northern part of the territory.
The subadult female from the Indigo Pack was found in a river and died of unknown causes in December 2020.
In 2021, the Indigo Pack produced at least two pups that survived to the end of the year, with five wolves counted in the pack. They were counted as a breeding pair.
Four wolves were documented in the Indigo Pack during the winter count. The pack produced only one pup that survived until the end of the year and was not counted as a breeding pair.
In 2023, the Indigo Pack produced two pups that survived until the end of the year and was counted as a breeding pair, with four wolves in the pack. One wolf from the pack died by a vehicle collision.
The Indigo pack produced two pups in 2024 that survived until the end of the year, designating them a breeding pair. The pack had six members during the winter count.
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