Another reason why collaring is bad for our Wildlife…. It Kills them. The Media still pointing out the Environmental Group Bailouts on Oregons Wolves. Those Groups need to find a different profession.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A wolf that might have been injured when it was captured and fitted with a radio collar was found dead near Mount Hood in northern Oregon, wildlife officials said.
The young male wolf found in November was one of only a few wolves that have taken up residence again near the volcanic mountain, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported recently.
A necropsy found the wolf was not poisoned or shot, said Elizabeth Materna, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman. The animal’s cause of death was unknown, but it had an injury to its front paw that possibly occurred when it was captured, she said.
The federal agency oversees wolf management in most of western Oregon.
The first wolves were sighted in early 2018 in this area of the northern Cascades Mountains. Images from a trail camera near Mount Hood last summer showed the returning wolves had produced a litter of at least two. The wolf that recently died was not thought to be the breeding male, wildlife officials said.
Officials estimate that at least 124 wolves live in Oregon, mostly in the northeastern part of the state.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife manages wolves in the eastern part of the state where the animals are listed as endangered. The state wildlife commission is set to vote on a management plan in March.
Environmental groups withdrew last month from negotiations on the plan, saying their proposals had not been fairly considered.
Source: Young male wolf found dead in Oregon near Mount Hood | Peninsula Daily News
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Damn it! This has got to stop!
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has proven they stand with the Ranchers,Not the Wolves.
We need to protectGods creations notkill them
How did the collar contribute to this wolf’s death. You stated collars kill them. I agree they can be located by collaring and people have used them for that, but, collaring can also provide much useful information about the wolf’s life. Torn with this, but, feel collared wolves should always be off limits to poachers and killers…..offering substantial fines and punishments.
It results from the animal being drugged
Yep, not sure about the collaring either.
People who do these things to animals are despicable heartless scumbags. Our Wolves are always being persecuted for who and what they are. This has to STOP. It is so ignorant and cold-hearted to kill Wolves, Bobcats, Bears, Cougars, etc. Because of stupidity and fear. We can all co-exist together on Earth. Every species benefits every other species of wildlife. It has been proven. It is always MANKIND that throws off the balance of Nature, not the wildlife.
A number of wolves have died because biologists collared them. This has happened in WA State too.
One was a female with very young pups, several years ago. The pups probably did not survive.
The U. of W. has a much safer technique for collecting data on wolves: collecting wolf feces using dogs trained
to locate the feces by smell and than analyzing the feces in a lab. A lot of info can be collected such as hormone level
and indications of condition and stress, sex, age, genetics, relationships between wolves, etc. The same is being
done with the endangered southern resident orcas in the Salish Sea.
Collaring wolves provides very little info., but it makes them very easy to find and kill which is probably why it has so
much support in the agencies. Collaring livestock is easier and cheaper and less stressful for the collared animal, but
ranchers have opposed that. The professor at WSU who used that method was fired because he was willing to speak
up and say what he saw when cattle were released and stayed near the den site of a wolf pack, sometimes with salt
blocks and water to keep them there. Most of that pack, the Profanity Peak Pack, was slaughtered by our WDFW
using the collared members of the pack. When winter came they still had not found and killed the only remaining
members of this once large pack, one small yearling and two pups. This little yearling managed to get the two pups
through the winter and through the next summer. Then she was shot illegally during the hunting season the next fall.
She was collared but had learned how to evade the helicopters, trappers, and hunters hired by WDFW that previous fall.
Local ranchers called for her killing throughout the winter but the state called a halt to its efforts. As the Judas wolf,
she saw all of the adults and other yearlings shot with rifles from helicopters – all paid for by WA State,
Also of concern is the huge size of the radio collars. If you’ve seen one on a skinny female like I have, in Yellowstone,
it is pathetic. How they handle this huge thing banging around on their neck all the time as they run and hunt I can’t
imagine. As their coats shed and grow, the sizing does not change. Wish we could put a few of these collars on some
of the biologists for the number of years some of the wolves wear them – and often even after they quit working.