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After more than 100 years, gray wolves reappear in Giant Sequoia National Monument

A wolf stands inside its enclosure at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center in Divide, Colorado, on March 28, 2023.

GIANT SEQUOIA NATIONAL MONUMENT, Calif. — On the morning of July 6, Michelle Harris saw a huge canid with yellow eyes dash across a fire road lined with charred snags and giant sequoias blackened by recent wildfires.

The animal “paused, started to pace and made clipped barking sounds — like it was very worried about something,” recalled Harris, a biologist who was working on a restoration project in the area. “Then it tilted its head back and let out a really decent howl.”

“All I could think was, ‘It doesn’t look like a coyote, but it has to be, right?’ ”

Animal tracks and DNA analysis of scat and hair samples determined it was an adult female

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