#protectthewolves Donny Martorello 360-902-2521 That is the LAMEST EXCUSE We have ever Heard!!! We PREDICTED THIS over a Month ago! http://gofundme.com/protectthewolves Protect The Wolves Sanctuary CAN PREVENT actions like this if you will get Behind Them using their Native American Religious Rights!!
In a Thursday email, Donny Martorello, the department’s wolf-policy lead, said the two wolves killed included this year’s breeding female.
“We were not targeting the breeding pair in this pack, but as we discussed, there is no way to identify the breeding animals during a removal operation, so there is always a chance a breeding animal may be killed,” Martorello wrote in the email.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife staff on Aug. 5 killed two adult female wolves from the Profanity Peak pack in Northeast Washington by shooting them from a helicopter.
Wolves began recolonizing Washington about a decade ago, and this is the third time the department has removed some of them. The department director Jim Unsworth approved the killings earlier this month, after wolves were linked to cattle deaths.
Department officials say that non-lethal methods to prevent the livestock deaths had not staunched the wolf attacks.
In a Thursday email, Donny Martorello, the department’s wolf-policy lead, said the two wolves killed included this year’s breeding female.
“We were not targeting the breeding pair in this pack, but as we discussed, there is no way to identify the breeding animals during a removal operation, so there is always a chance a breeding animal may be killed,” Martorello wrote in the email.
The aerial killings drew protests from the Center for Biological Diversity.
Amaroq Weiss, a West Coast organizer for the group, said that killing a breeding female could possibly cause the pack to split and spur additional conflicts.
“This wolf-killing operation is unfolding in a really disturbing way,” Weiss said in a statement released Thursday evening.
Martorello said the wolf-removal effort is ongoing, and that another update of the operation will be provided no later than Aug. 18.
Currently, there are 19 wolf packs in Eastern Washington.
Profanity Peak pack has at least 11 wolves in its pack.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: State wildlife staff kill two adult female wolves in Northeastern Washington | The Seattle Times
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How convenient! Anybody who can kill a wild animal from the sky is a coward. Have you given much thought to how brutally the cows you are trying to save will die soon? Just asking. Why is $$$ more important than life! God help you all sleep at night and just call it your job!
I am beside myself from all this killing of Wolves.As a previous owner of one I Can honestly say what the hell are you killing for.? Stop the inhumane kills.Shame on you All.
Hi Bonnie, As we are as well.. As soon as we are able to Purchase our Sanctuary Parcel, WE WILL BE TURNING UP THE HEAT ON THE STATE FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENTS, with Our Native American Religious Treaty Rights in an attempt to at least save these animals that have been Marked for Death Out of Greed!
Such cowards it would be great if the chopper would have went down!!!
This is the 2nd pack destroy for the Double M Ranch and Rancher Steve & Len McIrvin in the past 4 years! This is outrageous!! This can not be allowed to happen. We must stop catering to these terrorist ranchers whose cattle graze on public land and destroy the wildlife!
The cattle graze on our federal land. The cattle push out the Deer due to their overgrazing. This is the wolves natural food supply. So what they do? They allow a wolf-hating sicko rancher graze his cattle right on the Den! what do you expect is going to happen???
We Agree Tony…. We are working very hard to get all Tribes in Washington State to Join us in issuing a Cease and Desist all further Lethal actions until Tribes are on The Wolf Advisory Group. Stay tuned for our Next Article 😉 we ask for everyone’s help
Len McIrvin and family had held that particular land 36,000 acres as their know personal pastures. 6 generation.
That is one hell of a tax payer gift because it is public land we our talking about.
Maybe we need to rethink grazing on public lands and Ban it
Wildlife before cattle make America great again Beef Stinks
Hi Cynthia, presently we already have a petition to do just that 😉