Pennsylvania’s gray wolves were trapped and shot out of the state more than a century ago, and NatureServe now lists the species SX, presumed extirpated, within Pennsylvania. The 25 records logged here come entirely from GBIF rather than iNaturalist, a pattern that points to museum specimens, historical trapping records, or misidentified dogs and coyotes rather than photographs of a living population.
Reports show loose clusters in late winter and spring, near Pymatuning, Presque Isle, and the Delaware Water Gap, but with no resident wolves left in the state, that pattern says more about when old records were logged than about any animal currently moving through the landscape. A modern wolf sighting in Pennsylvania would be a rare wanderer, not evidence of a returning population.
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