Wolves and Livestock
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Wolf management plan examines killing of pups and sterilization of wolves. The Wildlife Services issued an Environmental Assessment at the beginning of August. Today is the last day to comment on the EA which calls for killing pups which have been orphaned by their control actions, sterilization of wolves, and increased killing of wolves in…
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August 20, 2010 update– Here is the latest wolf news latest wolf news from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Wyoming where the feds still officially manage wolves. There are links to other resources. I converted their news from .doc to a pdf file in an effort to make it readable here. Unfortunately the…
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Wolf management plan examines killing of pups and sterilization of wolves. Wildlife Services has issued a draft Environmental Analysis which examines a myriad of ways to kill wolves. Comments on the plan are accepted until August 31, 2010. Idaho Wolf EA “Management strategies would be developed for individual situations by applying the WS Decision Model…
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Oregon Fish and Wildlife hires a rider to keep wolves and livestock apart- This worked in Idaho and Montana back in the days before state wolf management. The states don’t even try. Defenders is still doing something a bit like this in Idaho with the Phantom Hill Pack under the grudging toleration of Idaho Fish…
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Groups argue federal animal killing agency has no business killing 2 of the 13 known wolves in Oregon- Revenge wolf killing threatens to make its way to Oregon. In Idaho the attitude is of WS is “their are so many damn wolves who cares if we kill the wrong ones?” “We have lots of leeway…
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More on the recent killing of pups in Wyoming The USFWS is effectively keeping wolves from dispersing into Colorado and Utah with its heavy-handed approach. Wolf pups slain after packs kill livestock. By Angus M. Thuermer Jr. Jackson Hole News & Guide
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Two adult wolves and six pups killed by Wildlife Services in an area with just one confirmed wolf depredation, a mere lamb- The state of Wyoming wants to confine wolves to 13% of the state, and Judge Molloy struck that plan down back in 2008. Currently under federal wolf management wolves are allowed to inhabit…
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Wildlife Services authorized to kill only two uncollared wolves after pack kills 5 head of livestock- The state of Oregon seems to be to be taking a reasonable, measured bit of action after that state’s only confirmed wolf pack killed a handful of livestock in the upper Wallowa Valley. According to Oregon Department of Fish…