There was a time when wolves were numerous in the Northwest and a period of when they were wiped off this part of the map (missed the history lesson? Read it here ). Today, 15 years after recolonization, these animals are making remarkable progress on their road to recovery in Oregon and Washington. Image ODFW (CC BY-SA 2.0) Desolation Pack wolf poses for a picture on a remote camera on Forest Service land in Grant County, Oregon. Long-term restoration, however, will take more than increasing numbers of wolves on the landscape. It will take a lot of hard work from everyone to find solutions to reduce wolf-livestock conflict and ensure wolves have the habitat and sufficient human tolerance needed to thrive. Counting Today’s Northwest Wolves Every winter, biologists from Oregon and Washington’s departments of fish and wildlife conduct their annual wolf count surveys. Both states track their wolf populations through a minimum population count, which is based on verified, direct evidence of each wolf.…