Jake Rau was driving through the Willamette National Forest in Oregon when, suddenly, he spotted a wolf. He filmed the animal and contacted park rangers, who said it was the first-ever confirmed sighting of a gray wolf in that area. In an interview with local news, Rau says the video shocked and excited the biologist who came to meet him.
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KGW News reports that there are currently more than 200 gray wolves in Oregon, which is up from just 14 individuals a decade ago. Perhaps in the future, sightings like this won’t be quite so rare.
See Rau’s rare wolf encounter in an Oregon national forest here:
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