Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre

TO PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF WILDLIFE AND THEIR HABITATS THROUGH REHABILITATION OF INJURED AND ORPHANED WILDLIFE, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND NON-INVASIVE RESEARCH.

WOLF HOLLOW TOOK 348 ANIMALS INTO REHABILITATION DURING THE YEAR, REPRESENTING 75 SPECIES. ANIMALS FROM 22 LOCATIONS INCLUDING MULTIPLE ISLAND LOCATIONS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. 138 ANIMALS WERE RELEASED; AN UNCORRECTED RATE OF 40.3%, A RETURN TO REHABILITATION STANDARDS. THE CORRECTED RELEASE RATE (EXCLUDING DOA AND EOA) IS 80.8%. BOTH RATES REPRESENT REDUCTIONS FROM 2020 BUT CLOSE TO OR ABOVE STANDARDS. IN 2023 WHWRC TREATED AND RELEASED 6 HARBOR SEALS. CHALLENGING FACTORS INCLUDED TRANSPORTATION DELAYS DUE TO WSF SYSTEM CHALLENGES (DELAYS GETTING ANIMALS INTO TREATMENT). THANKFULLY, WE DID NOT HAVE ANY LARGE GROUP DEATHS OR RESURGENCE OF SOME OF THE VIRUSES FROM RECENT YEARS, (RHDV, AHD, & HPAI). WHILE WE DID NOT SEE A RESURGENCE OF ADENOVIRUS HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE (AHD) IN THE DEER POPULATION, WE RECEIVED VERY FEW FAWNS THIS YEAR. WE RECEIVED A RELATIVELY SMALL COUNT OF 7 HARBOR SEALS THIS YEAR; ALL FROM SAN JUAN COUNTY MARINE MAMMAL STRANDING NETWORK.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES RETURNED TO A MORE NORMAL TEMPO DURING 2023 WHILE A COUPLE OF ACTIVITIES REMAINED VIRTUAL, AND SOME EVENTS HAVE NOT YET RETURNED FOLLOWING COVID, FACE TO FACE ACTIVITIES WERE MORE THE NORM. WE PARTICIPATED IN 119 ACTIVITIES REACHING 3674 PEOPLE INCLUDING 4 NEW EVENTS WHILE STILL BELOW THE PRE-PANDEMIC 2019 LEVEL OF 118 ACTIVITIES REACHING 5428 PARTICIPANTS, REFLECTS IMPROVEMENT OVER 2020 (17/589 PARTICIPANTS) AND 2021 (92/2550 PARTICIPANTS. WE ATTENDED 10 LARGE EVENTS (SAME AS 2019), WHERE MANY PEOPLE ARE INTERACTED WITH IN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, INCLUDING A VERY LARGE 667 AT THE SJ COUNTY FAIR. THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM RETURNED TO PRE-COVID LEVEL OF ACTIVITY AND WE WERE ABLE TO SOLICIT INTERNS FROM THROUGHOUT THE US. AS IN PAST YEARS THE INDIVIDUALS SELECTED ARE PURSUING OR CONSIDERING CAREERS IN ANIMAL REHABILITATION AND RELATED DISCIPLINES. THE AVAILABILITY OF INTERNS BECAME AN ISSUE THIS YEAR SO WE SELECTED 7 INTERNS SOME OF WHOM STAYED AT WH FOR 9 OR 12 WEEKS INSTEAD OF THE STANDARD 8. WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO FILL THE EDUCATION INTERNSHIP POSITION IN 2023, HOWEVER SHE HAD TO LEAVE EARLY LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO ATTEND EVENTS, (CAN'T BE IN 2 PLACES AT THE SAME TIME). SADLY WE LOST ONE OF OUR EDUCATION BIRDS, ASPEN, A ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK AFTER 28 YEARS. MADRONA, A RED-TAILED HAWK HAS BEEN WITH WH FOR 26 YEARS AND WHILE STILL ACTIVE AND ALERT IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN AND IS LOSING STRENGTH IN HER RIGHT FOOT (INJURED SIDE).