State Reports 13th Cattle Kill, Five Wolves Targeted For Death Remain At Large

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If we fail to at least take action, This is what to expect! Help us to help Them

 

Help us be the Voice they truly need.http://gofundme.com/protectthewolves If we fail to act, we will see more of this ! So Tell me… did the Cows follow the Wolves into the so called inaccessible area that DONNY MARTORELLO REPORTED???

The remaining members of a wolf pack in northeastern Washington targeted for extermination by the state are playing hard to get. Late Friday, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife pinned another dead calf on the Profanity Peak pack, but disclosed it was unsuccessful in hunting down any of the pack’s five surviving members this past week.

“The removal operation of the Profanity Peak pack is ongoing,” wrote WDFW Wolf Policy Lead Donny Martorello in an emailed and web-posted update.

Wildlife agents shot two adult pack members from a helicopter in early August after confirming that wolves attacked and killed four cows in the Kettle River Range over the previous month. Two weeks later, four more calves were found dead or injured.  That’s when the state agency director opted to exterminate the entire pack. Six of the original 11 pack members have been shot at this point.

“Since July 8, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has documented a total of 13 depredation events on livestock, including eight confirmed and five probable depredations,” Martorello reported Friday. He wrote that four ranchers released a total of about 1,500 cattle this summer on federal grazing allotments, which they discovered overlap with the range of the Profanity Peak pack.

The state agency won the backing of major conservation and cattlemen’s groups for its action, but has also come under sustained fire from pro-wolf organizations that are not members of a state wolf advisory group.

On Thursday, dozens of animal rights activists demonstrated in Olympia outside WDFW headquarters to decry the wolf culling. Speakers at the protest rally urged the government to retire grazing allotments in the wolves’ territory.

Earlier this year, the advisory group and state wildlife managers negotiated a new wolf management strategy that specifies when state officials can take lethal measures to stop livestock predation.

Members of the Wolf Advisory Group represent a wide range of stakeholders: livestock producers, well-known conservation organizations such as the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife, hunters and at least one photographer.

This group will meet again with state wildlife managers outside Seattle in mid-September. They also plan to review the new management protocols this winter.

Gray wolves are colonizing Eastern Washington from Idaho and Canada. In less than a decade, the population of wolves in the state has grown from two to more than 90, divided among about 19 packs. Wolves that roam west of U.S. Highway 97 are protected under the federal Endangered Species Act. Those to the east are primarily state-managed.

 

Source: State Reports 13th Cattle Kill, Five Wolves Targeted For Death Remain At Large | Northwest Public Radio

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  1. We are Mindlessly Proliferating our Human species, Invading the natural habitat of others and Destroying all in our path – including ourselves. The natural habitat of others is being raped by animal-agriculture for Non-Vegan diets ! !

  2. The Culture is man-made, that witholds religion and a God that was created after men his likes, laws and regulation and gos against the Nature and the Nature in all living BEINGS !!! The God of BLM and Ranchers is Business, that eliminates all rights of animals, that the Nature has provided them with and what is an unaccepeple CRIME!!! Human Beings must pay attention to Nature’s laws and regulations and follow them. But instead we are going against the Nature in animals and ignor that each species got their specified reason and right to be and to live free, what the humans are ignoring with using man made laws (big LIES) to interfere with Natures Life. No man is allowed to hunt and kill animals for fun nor for businesses and greed. And please take into consideration, that our earth with all its land belongs as much to animals as it belongs to Humans, and that means that man-kind must step back and learn once again how to live and deal with our fellow animals in order to please God and for the good for generation to come! The rancher should be forced to put up electric fences for the protection of their cattles insead only making money off them, and they must reduce their herds too!!!! What BLM and the Rancher are doing reminds me of the european intruders taking over America with eliminating Indians and Buffalos!

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