gray wolf

R-CALF USA is calling on Congress to pass the Pet and Livestock Protection Act of 2025.  The Legislation, introduced in late January by Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert and Wisconsin’s Tom Tiffany, seeks to remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List and return management authority to individual states.  R-CALF CEO Bi...

According to the Washington Gray Wolf Conservation and Management 2024 Annual Report, while the number of gray wolf packs in Washington increased in 2024, the state’s wolf count declined overall last year.   As of December 31st, 230 wolves were counted in 43 packs in Washington.  WDFW sai...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife is looking for the person or persons who killed a gray wolf in Central Oregon.  Investigators say on March 10th, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and State Police were called to a report of a dead male gray wolf near Sisters.  Th...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife has increased its reward for information after three wolves were found dead in central Washington.     Fish and Wildlife raised its reward to $10,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions after dead wolves were found in Klickitat and Okanogan counties.  Investigator...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $10,000 cash reward for information regarding a wolf poaching that took place in Morrow County back in November.  This is in addition to the standing reward of $10,000 offered by the Oregon Wildlife Coalition, raising the reward total to $20,000.   ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a reward for information regarding the recent illegal killing of a gray wolf in Morrow County.  On November 8th, a radio-collared male gray wolf, known as OR 159, was found dead on private land twenty miles south of Heppner.  Morrow ...

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in response to recurrent livestock depredations impacting multiple producers.  In last week’s announcement, Susewind noted: “The primary objective of lethal removal is to change a wolf pack’s depredating behavior when proactive and responsive deterrence measures best suited to the landscape and situation fail to do so. While considering the opti... Read M

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is discussing the possibility of killing a wolf, or multiple wolves, from the Onion Creek wolf pack in the northeast corner of the state.  As of last week, staff have investigated three confirmed depredation events in the pack territory across Stevens and Pend Oreille counties, resulting in three dead livestock within a period of 30 days.  These c...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week that a male wolf from the Dominion pack in Steven County was recently killed.  On July 31st, WDFW Director Kelly Susewind approved the lethal removal of one wolf from the pack following a string of depredations of cattle dating back to mid-June.  Susewind note...

Oregon Congressman Bentz pushes for wolf removal from Endangered Species list, citing impacts on livestock and stress in cattle herds.