A wolf came to L.A. looking for love. On Valentine's Day, she's moved on

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A wolf made history last Saturday when she wandered into the mountains of Los Angeles County, where her kind hadn’t been documented in more than a century.She had come seeking a mate.Mid-to-late winter marks breeding season for wolves.

The broad-muzzled canids are only fertile once a year — right around Valentine’s Day.But the 3-year-old wolf — known as BEY03F — is spending the romantic holiday in Kern County.She kept her time in L.A.

brief, having traveled north over the county line by Monday morning, per a state-run tracker of GPS-collared wolves.Now, time is of the essence for her to find a hubby.“Unlike dogs who can mate a couple times a year, come into heat a couple times a year, wolves aren’t that way,” said Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity.“So it’s really important for them to find a mate before this window of time.

She’s really kind of on the border here.It’s possible she could find a mate still within the next, like two weeks or so, and still be fertile.

But time is slipping away and the clock is ticking.”BEY03F, affectionately called “bae” by some, hails from far northeastern California, in Plumas County, where she was born into the Beyem Seyo pack in 2023.Last year, that pack made headlines for making an unprecedented number of livestock attacks — leading state wildlife officials to euthanize several members.But BEY03F left her family before that happened, according to John Marchwick of California Wolf Watch, an educational group.She spent time with the Yowlumni pack, the state’s southernmost group of wolves in Tulare County, where she was collared in May, said Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.She came a long way looking for love.

To get from her birthplace to the mountains north of Santa Clarita, she traveled more than 370 miles and...