Ferry County

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed last week the Sherman Pack was responsible for another depredation in Ferry County.

Last week, a King County Superior Court commissioner entered a temporary restraining order that prohibits the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife from lethally removing a wolf from the Sherman pack in Ferry County.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is considering incremental lethal removal of a wolf or wolves from the Sherman wolf pack in response to a confirmed September 28th depredation in Ferry County.

On Tuesday, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife staff killed an adult female non-breeding wolf from the Sherman pack.

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife recently killed a wolf from the Togo pack in the NE corner of the state.

The Washington Department of Ecology has expanded the drought emergency declared in April.  Ecology declared drought for the Yakima Basin watersheds on April 8, while issuing a drought advisory for Puget Sound region and portions of the Central and North Cascades.  Since t...

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind has decided against the lethal removal of a wolf from the Sherman pack territory in northeast corner of the state, despite repeated depredations of cattle in Ferry County.  The Director said his decision is consistent with the guidance of the state's Wolf Conservation and Management Plan and the lethal removal provisions of the Dep

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife said last week it is considering a period of evaluation following repeated livestock depredations.  This comes following a series of depredations in the Kettle Mountains of Ferry County that left one calf dead, three calves injured and one wolf dead.  Th...

FSA has designated half a dozen Washington counties as primary natural disaster areas due to drought.  The designation allows for the FSA to send emergency credit through emergency loans to producers in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Kittitas, Okanagan and Skagit counties.  According to the ...

Since 2008 the gray wolf population across Washington has grown nearly 28%, annually.  And despite that continual increase, the wolves remain on the endangered list.  State Representative Joel Kretz would like to give northeast Washington counties the ability to delist the wolf.  The Wauconda area...