Taking home in the Olympic National Park in Washington State, Rainier, nicknamed after the local Washington mountain, is one of the first wolves seen to take residence there in the last hundred years. First spotted in 2018 locals hoped he would take up residence, having no reports of him throughout the entirety of 2019 spirits were low that wolves would ever return to Olympic National Park, or anywhere west of the Cascades. However in May 2020 Rainier was seen, even more amazingly there was another wolf with him, which one of the photographers, a Chehalis native, nicknamed after their hometown. After so long it may be promising that wolves can one again inhabit western Washington because in September of 2020 a pair of hikers saw not only this famous wolf pair but with two pups. The darker being nicknamed Forks after the city Northwest of the park, and the white one nicknamed Quilcene after a town to the East of the park, these two puppies are the dawn of an era of wolves returning back to Western Washington.
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heir is named Skookumchuck
future possible pup names- Quinault, Snoqualmie, Piedmont, Ludlow, Sequim, Blyn, Lilliwaup, Quillayute, Ozette, Clallam, Coville, Brinnon, Hoodsport
