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The queen has arrived! A wild wolf, BEY03F, has entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in over a century.

California’s famous dispersing female wolf, BEY03F, has now officially crossed into Sequoia National Park according to the latest California Department of Fish & Wildlife wolf tracker data — making her the first publicly known wolf documented in the park since wolves returned to California in 2011.

Born in Northern California’s Beyem Seyo Pack in 2023, BEY03F has already made history multiple times after dispersing hundreds of miles south through the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first confirmed wolf in Los Angeles County in more than 100 years earlier this year.

Now, she’s proving something extraordinary: California’s wild landscapes are still connected enough for wolves to naturally reclaim historic habitat.

From the forests of Northern California to the mountains of the Southern Sierra, BEY03F’s journey is becoming one of the most important wildlife recovery stories in modern California history.

Source: California Department of Fish & Wildlife wolf tracker map + California Wolf Watch.