Wildlife managers have significantly pared back their efforts to find three juvenile gray wolves who are the last remaining members of a pack that had established itself in the Sierra Valley ranch lands north of Truckee, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday.
Three adult wolves and one juvenile from the same group, the Beyem Seyo pack, were euthanized by state game wardens in October after nonlethal efforts to stop them from preying on local cattle failed, the first time in a century that California sanctioned killing the protected animals.
Officials had vowed to find the remaining juveniles and transport them to a sanctuary but efforts to locate them have not been successful, said CDFW spokesperson Katie Talbot…