L.A.'s history-making wolf lands in Eastern Sierra. Miles pile up as she seeks forever home

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A wolf that seized national attention when she ventured into Los Angeles County earlier this year continues to make history.The 3-year-old female with black fur entered Inyo County around 7 a.m.Sunday about 20 miles south of Mt.

Whitney.She became the first documented wolf to set paws in the Eastern Sierra county in more than a century, according to state wildlife officials.By early Monday afternoon, she had pushed deeper into the county to west of the community of Bartlett, said Axel Hunnicutt, gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Her movements are tracked with a GPS collar.The wolf — known as BEY03F — essentially traversed the Sierra Nevada in the span of three to four days, a feat Hunnicutt believes was made possible by a low snowpack this season.She was “able to amazingly quickly cross quite mountainous terrain,” he said.

“I don’t think I could do that in three days.”The roughly 60-mile journey adds to the hundreds of miles she’s already traveled from her birthplace in Plumas County, in the far northeastern corner of California.She’s been in at least 12 counties and has possibly covered more than 1,000 miles in her lifetime — crossing dangerous freeways multiple times, Hunnicutt said.So what’s BEY03F up to now? She’s likely still looking for a mate, experts say.That’s what brought her down to Los Angeles County on Feb.7 in the first place.

Breeding season runs from mid- to late winter, and wolves are fertile only once a year — right around Valentine’s Day.So even if she finds a hubby, pups won’t be in the cards this year.Born into the Beyem Seyo pack, she made her way down to the Yowlumni pack in Tulare County, where she was collared in May.

(She left her birth pack before it became notorious for an unprecedented number of livestock attacks.)She didn’t stay in L.A.long.

Within two days of her arrival...