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The final week of May has been a busy one for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Crews were called to a possible wolf depredation in Klamath County Saturday, May 23rd. The skeletal remains of a 650 lbs. yearling steer were found on private grass pastureland ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says a Wallowa County area wolf pack is responsible for a recent depredation. On Thursday, May 21st, a producer found an injured, two-month-old, 130-pound calf in a large public land grazing allotment ...

Because of the growing population and the increase in the amount of depredations, lawmakers in Idaho are looking at allowing for wolf hunts year round, rather than the current specific season.  The legislation, Senate Bill 1247, introduced by Twin Falls Republican Bert Brackett would create 11 big game hunting units.  Th...

Because of the growing population and the increase in the amount of depredations, lawmakers in Idaho are looking at allowing for wolf hunts year round, rather than the current specific season.  The legislation, Senate Bill 1247, introduced by Twin Falls Republican Bert Brackett would create 11 big game hunting units.  Th...

A southern Idaho lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow for year-round wolf hunting.  The legislation introduced last week by Senator Bert Brackett would create 11 big game hunting units, primarily located south of the Snake River, as “wolf-free zones,” allowing hunters and trappers to take wolves any time of the year.  The bill would...

Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by Cascadia Wildlands to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's decision to delist the gray wolf, under the state's Endangered Species Act.  State wildlife officials removed wolves from Oregon’s endangered species list in 2015 and lawmakers passed a bill backing that move in 2016.  The envi...

The state of Oregon announced last week the newest wolf pack is the state has at least four pups.  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a photo from a trail camera confirmed the pups' existence in western Oregon. Their fur gray with cream-colored streaks, three of them were photographed walking on an unpaved road with a larger wolf, with the fourth pup on the other side of the road and fu

Governor Jay Inslee is asking the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill fewer wolves in the northeast corner of the state.  In a letter written to Director Kelly Susewind this week, Inslee asked that changes be made to the gray wolf recovery program to increase the reliance on non-lethal methods and to “significantly” reduce the need of lethal removal of wolves.  Inslee said th.

Following a recent confirmed depredation, lethal action has been authorized against a southeast Washington wolf pack.  On Tuesday, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind approved the incremental removal of wolves from the Grouse Flats pack.  Th...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed last week a wolf depredation in the Southeastern corner of the state.  Investigators said a producer called to report an injured cow on private pasture land Wednesday September 11th in Asotin County.  In...