208 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



This race, which was perhaps characteristic of the saturate 

 region of forest along the Northwest coast, is doubtless now 

 extinct in California (Grinnell, 1933). In Oregon, Bailey 

 (1936) writes, "a few of these large, dark gray wolves are still 

 found in the timbered country west of the Cascades . 

 and locally northward to British Columbia and Alaska. In 

 recent years they have been found mainly along the west 

 slope of the Cascade Range, but before extensive white settle- 

 ments were made in the State they seem to have been common 

 in the Willamette Valley and west to the coast ... In 

 1897 Captain Applegate reported them as formerly common, 

 but at that time extremely rare in the southern Cascade 

 region." In 1913-14 bounties were paid on 30 wolves taken in 

 Oregon, but in later years they seem to have been largely 

 exterminated within the State. Bailey mentions one taken in 

 1930 on the Umpqua National Forest, where it had killed 

 several sheep. It was very old with much worn teeth. A 

 second old male was killed the same winter in Klamath County, 

 while in Douglas County and Lane County one each was killed 

 in 1930 and 1931. At the present time, he writes, their num- 

 bers are so nearly under control that their damage is negligible. 

 This probably applies also to Washington, but no recent 

 statistics are available. In the remoter regions of western 

 British Columbia they are probably still present in some 

 numbers. 



NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF 



CANIS LUPUS IRREMOTUS Goldman 



Canis lupus irremotus Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 18, p. 41, Feb., 1937 ("Red 

 Lodge, Carbon County, southwestern Montana"). 



This is the wolf of the northern Rocky Mountain region and 

 high adjoining plains, from northwestern Wyoming northward 

 through western Montana and eastern Idaho at least to Leth- 

 bridge in southern Alberta. Intergradation with neighboring 

 races is presumed and makes the precise definition of the 

 range difficult. It is a light-colored race with narrow but 

 flattened frontal region, in these characters differing from the 

 race youngi of the southern Rocky Mountains. It is larger 

 and paler than nubilus of Nebraska or fuscus of Washington, 

 and smaller than the form occidentalis to the northward of its 

 range. 



