Updates to the OR Five-year Wolf Plan

Updates to the OR Five-year Wolf Plan

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is currently reviewing the five-year old plan review and will hold a Commission meeting on April 21st in Klamath Falls. Oregon Cattlemen's Association's Chair of the Wolf Committee and Wallowa County Commissioner Todd Nash says a big issue is that the Western three-quarters of the state's wolves — are under federal listing. The Northeast quarter of the state's wolf population where he resides is unlisted both statewide and federally. He shares the items OCA is requesting at the upcoming meeting

Nash: "In the five-year review, we are asking for a few changes and implementations of a few rules that we feel there is a latitude to have there within. First one we are asking for is local control so that the local biologist here can make the determinations on depredations and make the determination on whether that pack needs to have lethal action taken against it. So they can make that decision swiftly and then deal with the wolves that are the culprit of the crime — so to say — in a fast and efficient manner. The second thing we are asking for is to establish some management units so that no one place is overrun by wolves. Northeastern Oregon has held most of the population for most of the state for a while. We do not want keep that burden forever. The last thing is collaring — collaring is our main tool for doing nearly of the non-lethal activities. In order to effective we need to have that as a tool."

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