Figure 23.—Locations and range of wolf 1057. Only selected lakes are shown.
Suddenly on April 24, 1057 was found in Ontario some 31 miles northeast of her location of the previous week. That was the last time we heard her signal even though on May 2 we scanned an area with a radius of 35 miles from her last known location and listened for her signal during every subsequent flight.
Wolf 1059.—This animal was a member of a pack of three to five wolves (see next section). The movements of the group varied little and were concentrated in the August Lake, Omaday Lake, and Keeley Creek area in about 43 square miles ([fig. 24]). Contrary to animals 1051, 1053, and 1055, this pack did not suddenly begin a series of longer weekly movements in late February. Both before and after February 28, the average weekly straight line movement of the pack was just less than 3 miles.
Figure 24.—Location and range of wolf 1059 and pack. Only selected lakes are shown.
Probably these animals did begin traveling more in late February, for their net daily distances did increase at that time along with those of the other wolves ([table 4]). However, the increased travel took place within the restricted area of the pack's usual range rather than in new areas as occurred with the other wolves.
Because 1059 was later found to have bred and carried five fetuses, her movements during whelping season (late April and early May) are of interest. Her locations on both April 24 and May 2 were within 250 yards of each other, which might indicate that she was denning. On May 9, however, she was 2.5 miles east of these locations, on the 17th and 21st was 2 miles west of them, and on the 30th was 3 miles north of them.
In early January 1970, Wolf 1059 was killed by a trapper in the southeast corner of her pack's 1969 range.