Current Numbers: 6
Pack Status: Active. Designated in 2017.
The Togo Pack was designated in 2017, with two wolves confirmed in the pack territory.
In June 2018, biologists collared an adult male wolf from the pack and confirmed that at least two pups were born in the spring. In August 2018, the state began to share collar data with livestock producers in the area in response to suspected livestock predations, who shot and injured the black collared wolf in reported self-defense. In September, the state agency shot the injured male, whose back leg had been broken by the bullet several days previously. See below for a video of the male wolf and pups from August 2018.
At the end of 2018, the pack had only two remaining wolves and was not counted as a successful breeding pair.
In July 2019, a livestock producer in Togo Pack territory reported that he had shot and likely killed a wolf he caught in the act of attacking one of his calves.
Later in 2019, a new wolf (CTCR610) dispersed from the Strawberry Pack on tribal lands of the Colville Confederated Tribes and settled in with the Togo wolves.
No wolves were killed by the state in 2019. The 2019 annual survey counted three wolves in the pack, but did not confirm pups for 2019.
In 2021, the pack’s territory expanded to include the territory previously occupied by the Kettle Pack. In May, WA116M was collared in the Togo Pack. Shortly after capture, he dispersed into British Columbia, Canada, travelling over 115 miles before settling down and occupying a territory East of Vernon, B.C. At the end of 2021, there were seven wolves confirmed in the pack.
In January 2022, WDFW biologists deployed one additional collar in this pack during aerial count and capture operations. WDFW lethally removed a yearling female wolf on June 14 and an adult male wolf on June 17 from the Togo pack territory. There were five wolves confirmed in the pack at the end of the year.
In 2023, there were five wolves confirmed in the Togo Pack, and in 2024, there were six wolves confirmed in the pack. They were considered a successful breeding pair.
WDFW biologists radio-collared a wolf from this pack in January 2025.
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