Wildlife Services

  • Oregon Wolves Earn Reprieve as Hunt Halted

    Ralph Maughan

    Wildlife advocates celebrate short-term victory for endangered wolves- A temporary victory for the Imnaha Pack. News release from the plaintiffs. – – – – – – – – – – I borrowed the info below from email. It is a news summary from Oregon on the lawsuit (before the reprieve). Here are the other press…

  • Conservation groups sue feds (Wildlife Services) on Federal Wolf Management Actions in Oregon

    Ralph Maughan

    Groups argue federal animal killing agency has no business killing 2 of the 13 known wolves in Oregon- Revenge wolf killing threatens to make its way to Oregon.  In Idaho the attitude is of WS is “their are so many damn wolves who cares if we kill the wrong ones?” “We have lots of leeway…

  • Eight wolves killed in SW Wyoming because of the death of just one lamb

    Ralph Maughan

    Two adult wolves and six pups killed by Wildlife Services in an area with just one confirmed wolf depredation, a mere lamb- The state of Wyoming wants to confine wolves to 13% of the state, and Judge Molloy struck that plan down back in 2008.  Currently under federal wolf management wolves are allowed to inhabit…

  • Idaho Fish and Game/Wildlife Services targets wolf and her 7 pups 8 months after last depredation.

    Ken Cole

    Blue Bunch Pack near McCall and New Meadows hasn’t killed livestock since October and all other members have been killed It has been nearly 8 months since any member of southwest Idaho’s Blue Bunch Pack killed any livestock yet, on March, 16, members of the Blue Bunch Pack were killed by Wildlife Services under an…

  • Idaho April Wolf Report released

    Ken Cole

    IDFG/Wildlife Services’ war on wolves has begun. 42 wolves killed for 23 depredations. The monthly update from IDFG, which contains little useful or timely information, has been released for the month of April. It appears from the numbers that Wildlife Services has been given the permission to conduct extensive revenge killings on behalf of livestock…

  • Imnaha pack's breeding pair to be protected in Oregon control action

    Ralph Maughan

    Wildlife Services authorized to kill only two uncollared wolves after pack kills 5 head of livestock- The state of Oregon seems to be to be taking a reasonable, measured bit of action after that state’s only confirmed wolf pack killed a handful of livestock in the upper Wallowa Valley. According to Oregon Department of Fish…

  • The Problem with Wildlife Services

    Ken Cole

    The leaders in the war on wolves When was the last time you heard about Wildlife Services talking about non-lethal methods of preventing livestock losses to wolves? The only place in Idaho that this is practiced is with the sheep passing through the Wood River Valley each year and by Lava Lake Land and Livestock…

  • Someone in Nevada has it right about the uselessness of predator control

    Ken Cole

    NDoW opposes killing of predators says habitat is the issue. There is a battle raging in Nevada about predator control under the guise of helping deer and sage grouse. As it turns out the problem isn’t about predators but about habitat quality. For years the BLM and the ranchers have colluded in an effort to…

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