This is the last time the alpha female of East Pack was seen alive - it was late February 2009.  We found her carcass in the spring of 2009.  She died in her den while giving birth to eight pups.  All eight pups died.  

 

The questions that won’t leave us: Does East Pack, a dynasty and former power house, exist any more?  If so, how did they survive? And if not, who has replaced them?