Wolves in the Sierras??????

My girl called the FS and talked to a biologist, who pretty much said she was mistaken and it was surely a coyote. I checked the fish and game website and they said many false wolf identifications are from troubled hybrids who's owners couldn't handle them any more and released them in the woods.

if the FS/CA Fish & Game openly admitted that something bigger and meaner than coyotes prowled the woods, you can imagine the draw that it would present to folks looking for a righteous kill. similarly, the CO DOW never published their side of the story re the mama grizz killed in the southern San Juans in 2003, skewert by a bowhunter in his own camp in defense of life and limb. they just DO NOT want a slew of Texans, Nevadans, and other asshats storming in to blow away big smokey. An isolate community of alpha predators doing damage to the odd hunter/deer population is less bad than a torrent of turgid bellicose buttholes trying to blow away anything bigger than bambi.

A bunch of people keeps wolves as pets and sometimes even get fake certificates from the vets for them as some dog breed. They probably released some pups into the wild, and this is what it is. It's not legal to keep wolves in California, so selling pups might be tricky and lead to being caught, so they might had let some go.