They’re gray wolves from Oregon, not sure if they’re native to Oregon. We had wolves, grizzly and wolverines in Colorado, the early settlers killed them off because they were trying to ranch and live off the land, which is very hard to do when these predators want to eat your easy-to-catch cattle instead of roaming the mountains looking for elk. They didn’t release them in Rocky Mountain National Park, where most of the elk are, they released them into the less mountainous ranch lands to the west. All by design to make it harder for ranchers to make a living feeding us beef.