It was on November 29, 1883 that Charles E. Jones reported that he had killed two gray wolves on Skedaddle Mountain that he stated each weighed approximate 150 pounds. According to Jones he stated the wolves had been a “terror” to the sheepmen there. In 1890, A.J. Hall reported seeing a lone gray wolf on the mountain. In the course of time, with increased livestock operations, the wolf population witnessed a steady decline. It was in 1924 that the last gray wolf in California was killed near Skedaddle Mountain. Fast forward to January 2012, a lone gray wolf from Oregon dubbed OR7 made its first appearance in nearly a century to the north Skedaddle, in the Madeline Plains. Reaction, of course, is mixed depending on one’s perspective.
On a related footnote, the last big horn sheep killed on Skedaddle Mountain happened in 1883.