Protect Yellowstone’s Oldest Wolf Family

For more than a decade, the wolf known as 1090F has survived, raised her family, and roamed the wild landscape of Yellowstone. At 12 years old, she is thought to be the oldest living wolf in the Yellowstone area.

But after a lifetime spent largely within Yellowstone National Park, 1090F and her family are suddenly in danger of being killed.

The pack recently established a den just outside Yellowstone’s boundary in Wyoming. This fall, these wolves could be legally shot simply because they wandered across an invisible line they cannot possibly understand.

No wolf should be condemned to die for crossing a park boundary.

Wolves are intelligent, highly social animals with strong family bonds. They raise and protect their young together, depend on one another for survival, and can suffer devastating consequences when family members are killed. Shooting a parent or other pack member doesn’t just end one life — it can disrupt an entire wolf family.

And for what? Wolves like these contribute to scientific research, draw wildlife watchers whose visits benefit local communities and businesses, and support biodiversity. Killing one of these wolves for a trophy would sacrifice all of that shared ecological, scientific, and economic value for the fleeting satisfaction of a single hunter.

For 1090F, the threat is especially heartbreaking. She has lived an extraordinary 12 years in the wild. And she and her family are members of Yellowstone’s oldest continuously documented wolf pack, with a history stretching back to the restoration of wolves to the region more than 30 years ago. Originally known as the Crystal Creek Pack, the wolves were renamed Mollie’s Pack in 2000 to honor Mollie Beattie, the first woman to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a key supporter of Yellowstone’s wolf restoration, who died of cancer in 1996.

After all these wolves have survived, their lives should not end as trophies.

Wyoming has the power to prevent that from happening. Protecting Mollie’s Pack would spare these animals needless killing while honoring a wolf family that we have watched, studied, and cherished.

Please sign the petition to urge Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to protect 1090F and every member of Mollie’s Pack from being hunted and killed. Let this extraordinary wolf family live.

The petition to Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission reads: Protect 1090F and Mollie’s Pack from being hunted and killed. Use every available authority to ensure this extraordinary wolf family is protected before Wyoming’s 2026 wolf hunting season takes effect.

Photo credit: National Park Service