Donny Martorello

Washington to kill members of wolf pack in Stevens County 

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Donny Martorello to kill members of wolf pack in Stevens County based on last years Depredations

 

Donny Martorello is again carrying out the wishes of Donald Dashiell, Joel Kretz, Mike Blankenship  by bringing numbers into the picture from Last Year. How Long will Washington State Residents allow this type of Mentality in our Government?  Donny Martorello is Useless! He is blatantly disregarding the Mandates upon him under the Public Trust!

 — The state plans to kill some animals in a wolf pack, which has repeatedly preyed on livestock in Stevens County, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said Thursday.

The wolves, known as the Smackout pack, has preyed on livestock four times since September.

“The purpose of this action is to change the pack’s behavior,” said Donny Martorello, a wolf manager for the agency. “That means incrementally removing wolves and assessing the results before taking any further action.”

The Smackout pack is one of 20 wolf packs, all in Eastern Washington, documented in Washington state in 2016. At that time, the pack was estimated to consist of eight wolves, but it has since produced an unknown number of pups. The pack roams an area near the Canadian border north of Spokane.

Wolves were wiped out in Washington early in the last century, but begin moving back into the state from Idaho and Canada earlier this century.

The state is now home to at least 115 wolves, growing at a rate of 30 percent per year, and there have been conflicts between wolves and ranchers that prompted the state to kill numerous problems wolves in recent years.

Jim Unsworth, director of Fish and Wildlife, authorized the lethal action against the Smackout pack.

The department in June adopted a policy of removing wolves that prey on livestock three times in a 30-day period or four times in a 10-month period, Martorello said.

The Smackout pack’s latest depredation against cattle was discovered July 18.

In June, a ranch employee caught two wolves in the act of attacking livestock and killed one of them, the agency said.

“This rancher has made concerted efforts to protect his livestock using non-lethal measures,” Martorello said. “Our goal is to change the pack’s behavior before the situation gets worse.”

Gray wolves have been removed from federal Endangered Species Act protections in the eastern third of the state, although they remain protected under state law.

Chase Gunnell, a spokesman for Conservation Northwest, called the decision to kill several wolves “heartrending,” but said it may prevent the entire pack from being wiped out.

“We see this is a test of the theory that early lethal intervention can disrupt depredating behavior,” Gunnell said.

He said it was clear, based on information from the agency, that the ranchers involved in this case have taken steps to avoid conflicts with wolves.

 

We MUST SAVE THE SMACKOUT PACK!!

Donny.Martorello@dfw.wa.gov Wolf Policy Lead
Phone (360) 902-2521

Director@dfw.wa.gov

WDFW Main line 1-360-902-2200

Govenor Inslees Office : 360-902-4111

Source: Washington to kill members of wolf pack in Stevens County :: WRAL.com

Comments

  1. Donny it’s time for you to leave the Washington Game and Fish Commission. You bow down to these Big Ranchers and you need to stand up to them. They need to keep their damn cattle off Federal Lands and if they can’t house their cattle every night and keep them safe then they have too many cattle. These Big Ranchers it’s time for them to become extinct and go away. We are sick and tired of people like you Donny catering to them and the first thing that comes to your mind is to kill the Wolves. They must be paying you off Donny for that to be your only solution. They must be giving you blood money. I am Boycotting EVERYTHING every product that comes from Washington and I am going to press the issue that everyone else boycotts Washington till stop kissing these Big Ranchers ass. Your a sick minded individual and you need t stop this at once. Retire – quit whatever just get the hell out of this agency and let someone else who won’t be swayed by Big Ranchers $$$$ take over.

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  3. It’s long overdue for ranchers to realize that when they allow their cattle and other livestock to graze on public land predators are part of the package. this is their land. The pack are not doing this with malice. they are doing what come naturally. This must stop. Natures balance has a system and you cannot keep killing every animal that is doing what God intended them to do. Public land does not mean Ranch land. Ranchers shouldn’t expect a free ride and rights to what belongs to all of us. No, wolves are not vermin. They are an important part of our eco-system. We have taken so much land away from our wildlife. What do you expect? this is something you have brought on upon yourselves. STOP KILLING THE WOLVES. WE NEED THEM. Keep your livestock on your own land.

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