by Editor | Apr 18, 2013 | Agenda 21, Govt Agencies, Wildlands Project, Wolves
By MITCH LIES, Capital Press SALEM — Wallowa County rancher Rod Childers told lawmakers in a House committee April 16 that ranchers’ patience is wearing thin as wolves continue to kill livestock and cause “irreparable damage” to some ranch...
by Editor | Apr 18, 2013 | Govt Agencies, Wildlands Project, Wolves
By DAN WHEAT, Capital Press Posted April 17, 2013 WENATCHEE, Wash. — The Wenatchee Pack apparently operates closer to a city than any other wolf pack in Washington, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist says. But Wenatchee is unique as “a front range...
by Editor | Apr 18, 2013 | Govt Agencies, Wildlands Project, Wolves
By DAN WHEAT, Capital Press Posted 4/18/2013 WENATCHEE, Wash. — The Hurd brothers started seeing tracks on their ranch last year. They were from wolves or really large dogs, they weren’t sure. Then last fall the Hurds held four miles of fire line during...
by Editor | Apr 2, 2013 | Govt Agencies, Wildlands Project, Wolves
By Garnet Wilson and Dennis L. Clay, Columbia Basin Herald columnists They are getting closer. Mike Garneau of the Warden area sent word of a wolf sighting south of Wenatchee. Apparently a rancher found a dead pregnant cow with wolf tracks and signs of a wolf feeding...
by Editor | Mar 26, 2013 | Wildlands Project, Wolves
By SEAN ELLIS Capital Press Posted 3/25/2013 BOISE, ID — Two bills that would make more money available to control wolves and compensate producers in Idaho who have lost cattle to the predators are moving through the Idaho Legislature. One is on the verge of...
by Editor | Mar 26, 2013 | Wildlands Project, Wolves
By Mitch Lies Capital Press Posted 3/26/2013 SALEM, OREGON — Wolf expert Carter Niemeyer told lawmakers here March 25 that once wolves start feeding on livestock, it is extremely difficult to break them of the habit. “Generally when you have a wolf pack...
