It grew to 658 last year. A second group has emerged, however, to launch a petition drive to maintain the wolf hunt.
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Some groups and individuals have protested the hunt and filed lawsuits trying to prevent it. Chris Eaton, DFL-Brooklyn Center. "The wolf data bill is an alternative proposal that addresses common-sense concerns with Minnesota's wolf population and wolf hunt," Dr.
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Kevin chased the wolf to no avail, they wrote. The Swigerts contacted Grimm, and USDA agents were sent to investigate. Investigator Sam Kocherhans found wolf tracks, hair, blood and signs of struggle consistent with wolf depredation. Ertz has received troubling comments on videos she's made of USDA agents killing wolves from the air.
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...new pack, the Wenatchee Pack, appears to be made up of two female wolves from the Teanaway Pack, whose territory stretches between Ellensburg and Wenatchee. Under the state's Wolf management plan, a wolf pack is defined as two or more wolves traveling together. Despite their growing numbers, wolves were involved in fewer conflicts with humans and livestock in 2013 than in the previous year, Martorello said. Stephanie Simek, WDFW's wolf conflict-resolution manager, said...
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...grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will help the Colville Confederated Tribes' wildlife department continue to study gray wolves and develop a plan to manage them on the reservation. The tribes' fish and wildlife department is now conducing howling surveys, using remote cameras, trapping and collaring wolves and using DNA sampling to track their movements and identify home ranges, a news release from the tribe said. This winter, biologists used helicopters to locate...
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The department wants to reduce the wolf population there by 70 to 80 percent. A predation management plan for the area calls for wolf control actions to be initiated when sport hunting and trapping isn't sufficient to reach the goal. The Idaho Legislature is debating a bill that would use $2 million to start a wolf control fund endorsed by Gov.
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Wolf advocates want the bill to pay not just for the killing of wolves, but also for nonlethal measures to keep them from livestock. Since August, Idaho hunters and trappers have killed 251 wolves. Generally, as the population gets smaller, the cost of killing each wolf rises.
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Wildlife officials uses the same GPS collars for tracking wolves to alert ranchers of their presence.
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Following the removal of an individual, we monitor the pack and continue non-removal tools in an effort to prevent additional depredations. They were successfully poisoned, trapped, clubbed and shot until they were almost completely annihilated by the mid-1900s according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' website. There are only 83 reported Mexican gray wolves in the wild, according to a recent survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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All others are welcome to attend, space permitting, he said. Keating School is about 15 miles northeast of Baker City.
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