Questions and Answers Written by North Cascades National Park Interpretive Staff Funded by the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission Among the rare animals living in the North Cascades Mountains is one that may surprise you - the wolf. North Cascades National Park and its neighboring public lands in Washington and British Columbia are an impressive expanse of wild country. These lands preserve the hope that animals now rare will have room to live. The wolf's presence here, though in numbers much reduced from long ago, is testimony to the wildness of these mountains.
Wolves are shy, intelligent animals with complex social structures.
The questions and answers here provide pertinent information about wolves and their status in the North Cascades. Locations of other sightings in the North Cascades include McAlester Pass, Pasayten Wilderness and Twisp River drainage of the Okanogan National Forest, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and Stevens Pass. No one knows but probably very few. No one knows whether the population is increasing, decreasing or remaining the same. Wolves have been sighted throughout the Cascade Range and in the Selkirk Mountains in the state's northeast corner.