OR-7, mate may be adding to their pack - News - MailTribune.com - Medford, OR. Oregon's Wolves and the Oregon Wolf Plan - Discovering Wildlife Lecture Series. Oregon's Wolves and the Oregon Wolf Plan - Discovering Wildlife Lecture Series. Report: Oregon wolf count up, livestock attack cases down. Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — An annual report finds that wolves continued to grow in numbers and spread across Oregon in 2014, while livestock attack cases were down.
The report released Tuesday by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be a key document as the state Fish and Wildlife Commission considers taking wolves off the state endangered species list in coming months. Biologists found 77 wolves, compared with 64 last year. When the wolves return to Western Oregon. When Dalton Straus thinks about how his grandfather would react to wolves returning to the Cascade Range, he can't help but laugh.
"He absolutely hated wolves," the 84-year-old Central Point rancher said. "They would come in and attack our cows, sheep, chickens and turkeys, and he would shoot them when he got the chance. Oregon enters next phase of wolf recovery after at least seven packs breed in 2014: Changes for livestock producers. Jan. 27, 2015 SALEM, Ore.
—Oregon is moving to Phase II of its wolf recovery plan after wildlife biologists documented seven breeding pairs of wolves in Oregon in 2014. A New Year for Oregon's Wolves. A new year provides opportunities for reflection – and prognostication.
For wolves in Oregon, 2014 was a good year. Journey finally found his mate and Oregon continued a management paradigm where killing remained an option of last resort. The result was a small but expanding wolf population and a continued decrease in conflict. Imnaha King: The Life of OR4 by Emma Marris. “He’s been through four captures.
He’s depredated. He’s been slated for death. And he’s turned gray in front of our eyes. He’s lived a hard life.” That’s Russ Morgan, a biologist who works for the state of Oregon on the animal he’s studied, darted, and occasionally aimed a gun at for the better part of a decade. OR-7, mate and pups become 'Rogue Pack,' first pack in Western Oregon. Oregon’s OR-7 wolf, his mate and their pups are now a pack.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have begun describing the wandering wolf and his companions as the Rogue Pack in a nod to the area in southwestern Oregon where they have established territory. Achieving packhood adds another historic distinction to OR-7’s long list of triumphs. In addition to his status as the first gray wolf to travel west of the Cascades in more than six decades and the first found in California in 90 years, OR-7 and his family are the first established pack in Western Oregon since wolves became extinct here in the late 1940s.
Oregon’s eight other packs are all located in Eastern Oregon. Wolf tracks confirmed in new area in northeast Oregon. ODFW Commission Considers Changes to Oregon Wolf Plan. On Friday, October 10th, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) Commission will discuss three extremely consequential wolf issues.
Below, please find important information and statements from Oregon Wild regarding this meeting and the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan. Meeting materials from the agency may be found at Sharing Wolf Locations with the Public. Www.dfw.state.or.us/Wolves/docs/Wolf_Literature_Review_Research_Recommendations.pdf. Where wolf? There. Wolf? We live in an age where the answer to any question is no further away than the widget in your pocket.
We’re bombarded by websites, articles, and videos promising to show us “the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen”…and they often deliver. In such a world, I’ve become fond of saying “it’s nice that there’s a little mystery left in the world.” Earlier this summer during the Oregon Wild Wolf Rendezvous, that conviction was put to the test. We always remind participants that Oregon’s wolf population remains small and elusive. AKWA_SnakeRiver_140314. AKWA_Imnaha. Oregon wolf population grows modestly in 2013, but breeding pairs down. The Oregon wolf population is at least 64 wolves at the end of 2013- Oregon is perhaps the state with wolves that treats them the best.
An official wolf count began in 2009 when 14 wolves were detected. Since then it has grown steadily though more slowly than did wolves in neighboring Idaho. At the end of 2013, the minimum number of wolves was determined to be 64, up from 48 the previous year. In 2013 six breeding pairs of wolves were found, but in 2013 that fell to four. Update: There just recently was a confirmed sighting that shows a second wolf has come to the Cascade Mountains. The packs are named Imnaha, Wenaha, Walla Walla, Umatilla River, Snake River, Mt Emily, Minam, and “New Pack in Catherine Cr / Keating.”
There were two new packs detected in 2013 — probably five wolves in the “Catherine Cr/Keating Units.” All of the packs live (see map) in the part of the state where the federal government delisted wolves but they still have Oregon state endangered species status. Oregon Wildlife Commissioners Revise State Wolf Plan. Oregon wildlife managers approved a plan Friday to allow ranchers and wildlife enforcement officers to once again kill wolves that prey livestock.
EarthFix reporter Aaron Kunz explains. Oregon’s wildlife commissioners revised the state's wolf management plan. It allows Fish and Wildlife officers to resume killing wolves that are a danger to livestock. Ranchers could kill wolves caught in the act of preying on cattle or sheep. The agreement reflects a year’s worth of compromise from ranchers to environmental groups like Oregon Wild. Pedery: “Everyone from the conservation community to the livestock producers to the state wildlife managers are really on the same page right now. The revisions to the wolf management plan will allow game officers to kill wolves but only as a last resort.
This plan is very similar to Washington’s. Copyright 2013 Northwest Public Radio. ODFW Wolves and Livestock. The goal of Oregon’s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan is to ensure the conservation of gray wolves as required by Oregon law while protecting the social and economic interests of all Oregonians. Minimizing wolf-livestock conflict and reducing livestock losses to wolves is an important part of the Wolf Plan.
Download Wolves and Livestock in Oregon brochure (pdf) Because wolves are protected by state and/or federal law, there are restrictions on what private landowners can do. If you see a wolf near your home or livestock, you are authorized under state and federal law to scare the animal off (by making loud noises for example) as long as your actions do not harm or injure the wolf in any way. Under current law, it is unlawful to kill or harm a wolf attacking livestock, except with a permit. No-kill wolf ban spurs nonlethal options. GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — As long as wolves have been making their comeback, biologists and ranchers have had a decidedly Old West option for dealing with those that develop a taste for beef: Shoot to kill.
But for the past year, Oregon has been a "wolf-safe" zone, with ranchers turning to more modern, nonlethal ways to protect livestock. Pack of ranchers on lookout for Imnaha wolf. PEPC - Pre-decision Environmental Assessment - Wildlife Services Gray Wolf Damage Management in Oregon. Wolf Hatred is a Gateway to Bigotry. By Bob Ferris – January 17, 2013 Hate and intolerance are the underlying themes of the philosophies and motivations anti-wolf folks exhibit This article originally appeared in Cascadia Wildlands (This a PG-13 rated article. We purposely omitted profanity laced posts, death threats, and pictures of blood and gore because we feel that the evidence of bigotry is obvious and the need for action compelling.) In late December an “event page” on facebook was attacked. Listen up, Obama! « Wolves and Writing. President Obama simply cannot ignore a letter from 24 influential environmental non-profits, including Oregon Wild, Northeast Oregon Ecosystems, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild), Defenders of Wildlife, Predator Defense, Big Wildlife, Northern Idaho Wolf Alliance, and the Sierra Club.
The letter, see link below, calls for continued protection under the Endangered Species Act for wolves in the Pacific Northwest. As this update on Oregon Wild’s website explains, the US Fish and Wildlife Service is close to making a decision as to whether wolves in the Northwest will retain this much needed protection. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (from OREGON WILD website) Twenty-four Conservation Groups Call on President Obama to Maintain Protections for Wolves in the Pacific Northwest Known to most as Journey, OR-7 travelled from Oregon to California and focused international attention on the success story of wolf recovery.
Snake River Wolf Pack Howling 7-25-12. ODFW Gray Wolves. March 11, 2014. ODFW Gray Wolves. March 2, 2017 Wolf dies in unintentional take in northeast Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife SALEM, Ore. —Wolf OR48, a Shamrock Pack adult male, died on Feb. 26 on private land in northeast Oregon after an unintentional take by the US Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services. The wolf died after encountering an M-44 device, a spring-activated device containing cyanide powder. The device was in place as part of Wildlife Services operations to control coyotes and prevent coyote-livestock conflict on private land in northeast Oregon. “The death of this wolf shows the risk involved when wolves are in areas where Wildlife Services conducts these types of operations,” said Doug Cottam, ODFW Wildlife Division administrator.
ODFW and Wildlife Services are evaluating the incident and discussing how to prevent unintentional capture or take of wolves while addressing livestock damage problems. Wolf OR48 was collared on Feb. 10 of this year in Wallowa County and was part of the Shamrock Wolf Pack. Wolves are not what they have been made out to be - Herald and News: Viewpoints. Oregon-7, that wandering grey wolf from northeast Oregon, has moved into our neck of the woods. His arrival brings many questions. Save the Imnaha Wolf Pack in Oregon. Facebook. Don't stop believing...The Journey of OR7. Wolf Depredation Payment Changes Made. Failed wolf collar ends text warnings. Oregon Department of Agriculture will compensate ranchers for livestock killed by wolves. Save Oregon's First Family of Wolves. Wolf bill meets opposition. Save Oregon's Struggling Wolf Population. Bill would make it easier to kill Oregon wolves. Elk population survey finds calf ratios up in Union County.