wolf depredation

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.

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

On Wednesday, federal officials killed a wolf in Oregon, amid growing concerns about public safety.  According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, several unsuccessful attempts were made to deter OR 158, before the lethal action was taken as a last resort.  This re...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week that a yearling female as well as an adult male wolf have been removed from the Columbia wolf pack.  Earlier this month, WDFW Director Kelly Susewind authorized the lethal removal of up to two wolves from the pack territory in response to repeated depredations of cattle in Columbia County.  The let...

On Friday, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed a depredation on private land in Jackson County.  Investigators said when they responded to the Rancheria area, they found one dead nine-month-old calf.  ODFW added it appears that the OR 167 wolves are responsible for this depredation.   This marks...

Last week was a busy one for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews.   On Wednesday, investigators were called to a dead calf, reported on private pastureland near Silver Lake in Lake County.  ODFW determined that calf was killed by wolves from the nearby Gearhart Mountain pack.   And o...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife investigators were called out to two separate attacks on livestock in the eastern part of the state last week.  Crews were called to the Beagle Creek area of Baker County, where one dead and one injured calf were discovered.  ODFW sa...

Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife are looking for the person(s) responsible for shooting and killing a wolf on BLM property in Baker County.  A black female, known as OR-88, was found dead October 3rd near Little Lookout Mountain, nine miles northeast of Durkee. OR-88 was part o...

It was a busy weekend for Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crew across the state. It started Friday morning in Union County, near the Palmer Junction area, when a livestock owner found three dead goats on his 44-acre, private-land pasture about 300 yards from his house...