Wolves kill calf in Wallowa County, Oregon

ODFW and USDA Wildlife Services have confirmed that a cow calf was killed by a wolf (or wolves) on private property in the Zumwalt area of Wallowa County. The dead calf was discovered yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, May 5) by an ODFW employee who had been involved in efforts to haze elk away from the area, where there are cattle grazing.

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[TheMajestuoso]

The wolves are not un-managed. State, federal agencies and other agencies are helping to fund the management of wolves. The wolves are tracked with radio and gps collars. They are studied and monitored (including using trail cameras and people on the ground). Non-lethal programs and kill permits have been issued (and carried out). I think this video would have people believe that the wolves are legally protected and given carte blanche on livestock.

[wallowavalleyonline]

@TheMajestuoso Wolves are given what you describe "carte blanche" on livestock. Non-lethal methods can only be applied "after" livestock depredation has occurred. Kill permits have been issued, one has been carried out, additional two have not been carried out after Defenders of Wildlife threatened to sue the US Wildlife Services.

[wallowavalleyonline]

They carry collars that can only be tracked at close encounter meaning they are non GPS collars. At this point and time there is not a single wolf that is collard with a GPS collar in Wallowa County, Oregon.

[combatcurtful]

@TheMajestuoso are you a fucking retard?? I grew up where these cattle were killed by your state, and federally managed wolves. The only reason they wear tracking collars is so they can recover it when i kill one and send the collar down the line at a truck stop. Your state and fedaral governments have denied wolves being in Baker, Wallowa and Union county for almost 10 years and those "unconfirmed" kills are their way of still denying them. "unconfirmed" has been around a while.

[puddlejumper98]

@RachieBoh So, instead of the public paying for couger and bear tags and going out at there own expence to manage cougers and bear, we pay about 6000 bucks per cat killed. Now I hate to bust open a good thing so I will leave it there. Why not give us the dogs back and youll see less cats entering town and give more room for the wolves. Well not much cause wolves kill tooo much and breed to fast! wolves have up to 3 litters a year. deer elk 1 if lucky a year. couger actually eat all they kill.

[puddlejumper98]

@RachieBoh Why cant people understand that we must manage the system as a whole? Not just one species but all. Of course we all like the fact wolves are in oregon, cool. However we must manage them just like bear and couger. Well, we havent actually been real sucessfull on the bear and couger since the use of dogs were band back in 93 due to it being cruel to the dogs! Ok, so now the fish and game pay contractors to do the same job with dogs and will pay 1500 bucks for each dogs vet bill!

[puddlejumper98]

@WQTinderWolf Idiot!! Your right to a T! They were here first. Yup! your so smart. Um now what do we do? Just move the fuck out and let the wolves take over and eventually kill them selfs off cause they killed more then they could eat for fun. See we not only killed off wolves but there habitat to. Ok so now we need to "Manage" them from here on out! Why cant you city slickin, pot smokin hippys understand that? I guess we could move them to the west side!

[puddlejumper98]

@wallowavalleyonline Im tired of paying for this study program. If we want to learn about wolves go to canada its cheaper!

[puddlejumper98]

@TheMajestuoso They are protected dumb ass!!!

[TheMajestuoso]

Of the 104.5 million cattle produced in 2005, only 0.18 percent died as the result of predation. In comparison, 3.69 percent were lost to illness, weather, theft and poison. Coyotes killed 97,000 cattle. Domestic dogs killed 21,900. Wolves killed remarkably few cattle, 4,400. In Minnesota, a state with nearly 500 times as many wolves as Oregon, they were responsible for just 0.65% of cattle losses. That number is 0.74% in neighboring Idaho.

[wallowavalleyonline]

(fwp.mt.gov/wildthings/managem­ent/wolf/population.html)

[wallowavalleyonline]

@WQTinderWolf @WQTinderWolf There are certainly more than 1500 wolves nationwide. At the end of 2009, the estimated minimum number of wolves in the northern Rocky Mountain States of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming was 1,706 wolves alone. That does not take in account numbers from other states where wolves have also been re-introduced.