wolves

Washington's wolf population continues to increase. According to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the 2019 wolf count shows a population at the highest levels since the 1930's, the last time wolves could be hunted in the state ...

The director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game says there are an estimated 1,000 wolves in the Gem State.  Ed Schriever told the House Resources and Conservation Committee last week that the estimate is the first wolf population estimate in Idaho since 2015.  Sc...

Experts say trail cameras have captured new images of the only wolves known to live in Oregon’s northern Cascades.  According to the Oregonian, cameras, which are operated as part of a collaboration between Defenders of Wildlife and Cascadia Wild, caught pictures of the adult canids, believed to be the breeding pair of the White River Pack.  The pict...

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

On Wednesday, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife authorized killing some members of a wolf pack that are preying on cattle in the northeastern corner of the state.  Agency director Kelly Susewind said the state will kill part of the OPT pack, for the second year in a row, in an effort to change the behavior of the pack.  Th...

Wolves should be removed from the federal endangered species list throughout Washington state, Washington Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind wrote in a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released this week.   “This is the right direction for wolf conservation and management in our state long-term,” Susewind wrote in a letter dated April 18 and released Wednesday. “The department..

It took a while to get out of the Senate, but lawmakers in Olympia passed legislation this month addressing the growing gray wolf population in Washington.  House Bill 2097 requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to review the wolf’s population status by February of next year, as well as consider the listing status of those wolves by August of 2020.  The Legi...

Big announcements this week regarding wolves and Washington apples. We recapped with Central Washington representative Dan Newhouse.       If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com...

The number of wolves in the state of Washington is likely much higher than previously thought, according to a University of Washington researcher who spent two years studying the animals using scat-sniffing dogs.  Samuel Wasser said his dogs detected 95 wolves in one area of Stevens and Pend Oreille counties, in the northeast corner of the state, during the 2016-17 season.  Th...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials have confirmed the first wolf depredation of 2019.  Investigators were called out to a ranch in Jackson County Tuesday, after an owner found an injured five month old calf on private pasture land.  OD...