wolf depredation

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...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists shot a yearling male wolf from the Chesnimnus Pack early Friday evening. The operation took place from the ground. With the taking of this second wolf, the active kill permit that allowed the lethal removal of two wolves from the Chesnimnus Pack due to chronic depredation is no longer active ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a depredation in the Coyote Canyon area of Umatilla County earlier this week. On Monday, a sheep herder found a dead 180- pound ewe and a dead 70-pound lamb in a 5,000-acre private-land pasture about one mile from the herder’s camp, where the sheep had been bedded for the night. The ...

Investigators with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have been very busy in the John Day area over the past couple of days. On Friday, May 20th, crews were called out to the Middle Fork John Day area of Grant County after a livestock owner found a dead six-month old, 350-pound calf, in a 1200 acre, private-land pasture about 400 yards from his corrals ...

After a bit of a lull, wolf depredations have picked up in Oregon. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a pair of depredations in Baker County Monday May 2nd. The first case occurred after a livestock producer found two injured calves while on privately-owned pastureland near the town of Richland ...

According to the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management’s annual report, the wolf population in the state increased slightly between 2020 and 2021. The report indicates the minimum known count of wolves in Oregon at the end of 2021 was 175, and increase of two wolves from a year earlier. T ...

The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board will have just over $1 million this summer to kill wolves across the state. Board officials requested $392,000 from the state’s general fund last week; that is the same amount the group requested in 2021. The ...