A gray wolf has made a rare appearance in the Santa Clarita Valley, marking the first confirmed sighting in Los Angeles County in more than a century.
The wolf, a three-year-old female wolf known to biologists as BEY03F, was detected in the mountains north of Santa Clarita early Saturday morning, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Just hours earlier, she had been traveling south through Kern County, underscoring the long journey that has brought her into Southern California.
Wildlife officials are tracking the wolf’s movements through a GPS collar that was placed on her last spring while she was roaming with the Yowlumni Pack in Tulare County. The Times reported that BEY03F dispersed from that area about a week ago and has continued moving steadily since then…