gray wolf

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.

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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife was very busy last week with several depredations in the eastern part of the state.   Investigators were called all to private pasture land in the Silver Creek area of Harney County on Monday, February 27th.  Th...

The final week of the year was a busy one for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews, as they were called to depredations leading to the deaths of four calves.     The first incident was reported Christmas Sunday, on private land in Union County’s High Valley area.  When crews arrived...

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the American Farm Bureau, and other members of a coalition applauded an appeals court decision allowing intervention in a case regarding gray wolves.  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will allow the coalition to intervene in the Defenders of Wildlife versus the U.S. Fish and Wil...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said it will increase its involvement and assist in the lethal removal of one Chesnimnus Pack wolf. A kill permit has already been issued against the NE Oregon pack due to livestock conflict; now the Department may remove a wolf from the ground or the air ...