WDFW's Hidden Wolf History
The Yellowstone and Idaho wolf introduction story starts out with the USFWS and Defenders of Wildlife.
When WDFW announced the first wolf pack in seventy years in 2008, it was the start of many wolf lies WDFW would tell. WDFW's wolf history proves that they were pushing wolves as far back as the 1990's.
From aticles of the past, Scott Fitkin, and Harriet Allen, state biologists for WDFW were studing and collaring wolves in the 1990's, while the USFWS along with Defenders of Wildlife were pushing the wolf propaganda, the same propaganda the USFWS's Alberta wolves have proven to be lies in the last seventeen years.
Who is Harriet Allen?
Rare Wolf Pups To Be Isolated, Photographed-Sunday, June 3, 1990
State and federal biologists in May located the gray wolf den containing pups by howling at them and getting distinctive barks and howls in return. "It is the first confirmation in 15 years that wolves are living in Washington", says Harriet Allen, state biologist
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900603&slug=1075265 Fourth state wolf pack confirmed-July 05, 2011
"The discovery of another resident wolf pack clearly indicates that "wolves are returning to Washington state naturally," said WDFW Director Phil Anderson. "Their return highlights the need to continue efforts to finalize a state wolf conservation and management plan that will establish state recovery objectives and describe options for addressing wolf-livestock and wolf-ungulate management issues."
"Harriet Allen, WDFW's threatened and endangered species program manager", said the search for the Teanaway pack was prompted by reports of wolves in the area from citizens and state and federal agency personnel. Remote, motion-triggered cameras were deployed by multiple agencies and private groups. Images of wolf-like animals were captured on cameras placed in the area by Conservation Northwest, a private, non-profit organization. The group's Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Program also provided the first images of the Lookout Pack pups three years ago.
"We appreciate the efforts of Conservation Northwest and our partner agencies, the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, "to help us document wolves as they return naturally to Washington," Allen said. "Documenting packs and learning about territory use, productivity and survival will help us understand how wolves are using Washington habitat. That will help us protect them and ultimately determine when we reach recovery goals
http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/jul0511a/ Wolves returning "Naturally" twice in one article, Allen?
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Wolves In Cascades -- First Sighting In 15 Years-May 25, 1990
Wolf pups are living in a den deep in the North Cascade Mountains, the first sighting in 15 years in a state where wolves were virtually exterminated decades ago, biologists said today
Cindy Barry, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said biologists ``heard the yips of the wolves'' and could tell from the sounds that some were pups and some were adults. ``They didn't actually see the wolves,'' she said, but officials still consider it a sighting.
``This sighting confirms that we have the habitat for wolves,'' Gastellun said. He said wolves feed largely on small animals such as squirrels
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Endangered Gray Wolf Trapped Near Mt. Baker
February 5, 1992
For the first time in anyone's memory, wildlife biologists have captured an endangered gray wolf in Washington.
State Wildlife Department biologists said they trapped the animal, a healthy 56-pound female, near Mount Baker last Friday. The wolf was fitted with a radio collar and released the next day on national forest land a few miles away.
biologists Jon Almack and Scott Fitkin succeeded in luring the animal into a fenced swimming-pool area, using a fish carcass as bait.
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Wolves Coming Back To Cascades
December 6, 1992
TWISP, Okanogan County - We may not be dancing with wolves, but they're here, their numbers are growing and it is possible to coexist with them in relative peace.
In the Okanogan, one or more wolves have been spotted in five separate areas since 1989.
The plan is to let the wolves - moving into old haunts south of Canada after hunting stopped there in the 1970s - reproduce themselves, said Jon Almak, a state Department of Wildlife biologist.
Biologists are trying to write a wolf-recovery plan for Washington.
Originally planned as part of a recovery program for the northern Rockies, where wolves were brought in, the effort could become unique to Washington because of the apparently burgeoning population.
For example, 100 sightings were reported in 1981, and last year there were 200, ranging as far south as Mount St. Helens, Almak said.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ug=1528536
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Gray Wolves' Return Subject Of Monday Meeting-April 17, 1992
State wildlife agents already have identified six packs of wolves in Washington's Cascades, and more are expected to migrate from Canada to the state's protected forests.
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Norm Dicks Puts Gray-Wolf Study On The Fast Track -- Reintroduction Wasn't Priority For Agencies-July 14, 1997
Reintroduction of wolves to the Olympics wasn't a high priority among federal agencies or many Northwest wolf advocates until Dicks, urged by Defenders of Wildlife, an East Coast-based conservation group, got excited about the idea. "Wolves in the Olympics haven't been our priority," said Jim Michaels, endangered-species coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Western Washington field office. "But dollars certainly are very scarce and competitive for this stuff. If you've got a congressman who is interested, you better snag the chance."
Ed Bangs, head of wolf recovery for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said the agency's priority is restoring wolves to large land areas where they can link up with existing populations. The Olympics, as a wolf habitat, is virtually an island, and restoration of wolf populations there requires direct human intervention.
Argues Mitch Friedman, director of the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, "Wolves in the Olympics make perfect political sense because you've got a congressman who wants them in his district. But biologically speaking, why are we starting another batch of cookies while we let the ones we've already got in the oven burn?"
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Conservation groups want U.S. to restore gray wolves in state-November 1, 2002
Two conservation groups are calling on the federal government to restore gray wolves to Washington state, saying it's time to "hear the call of the wild again" in Western Washington forests.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance said yesterday they have sent a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requesting that the agency restore and protect gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20021101&slug=graywolves01mMitch Friedman is the executive director of Conservation Northwest (known first as Greater Ecosystem Alliance, then Northwest Ecosystem Alliance),
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2008
DNA tests showed that the wolves originated from a population in the northern British Columbia and Alberta provinces of Canada.
"This is a natural colonization," said Fitkin. "The wolves are naturally immigrating." Fitkin and his team will continue to monitor the movements of the collared wolves and wolf pups as they move around the summer rendezvous area.
"I've been waiting for this for 18 years," said Fitkin, who said he was very excited by the findings of the investigation. Fitkin has been involved in wolf research in the North Cascades since 1991.
Anyone with concerns about wolves may contact Fitkin at ---------.
Read Conservation Northwest's press release >>
Posted by Suzanne Stone on 05:
Why does WDFW continue the rhetoric "wolves migrating to Washington naturally"?
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DNA confirms wolf comeback-July 24, 2008
Wildlife officials say this is the first documented resident wolf pack in Washington since the 1930s
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Excitement, anxiety as wolves return to Washington- May 23, 2009
There has been one report of a cow possibly killed by wolves near the community, about 100 miles northeast of Seattle. But The Wenatchee World reports that had not been confirmed as of the past week.
No one has reported pets carried off by the first confirmed pack of wolves to live in Washington state since the Great Depression, state officials say.
"Well-behaved," is how state Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Scott Fitkin describes these wolves in their first official year of residency.
"I halfway anticipated we might have had an incident with somebody's dog by now," the Winthrop biologist said. "I've been surprised at how covert they've been."
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/45923372.html(Actually there were a couple of dog "incidents," and the dogs lost) I wonder how many incidents have been reported, that WDFW failed to report in the last week?
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Collared Idaho wolves in Alberta?
A few years ago a man who worked for Canadian Wildlife, posted on a secure facebook wolf site, he said "many of the USFWS's Aberta wolves went back to Alberta, and that we would be surprised at how many times the USFWS had to come back to Canada for more wolves." He said, "it was the best money Canada ever made on wolves, selling them to the stupid USFWS."
Gray wolves can travel great distances in short periods of time. For example, one wolf that was recently radio-collared in Montana's Glacier National Park was killed a few months later 500 miles north in Canada.
WDFW's new phrase, "just passin through"? I wonder if these passin-through-wolves are headed back home to the Methow?
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Although wolves generally prefer to prey upon elk and deer, and although attacks on humans almost never happen, livestock owners contend that they prey indiscriminately. But Fish and Wildlife Service figures indicate that domestic livestock are rarely killed by wolves.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910908&slug=1304367The USFWS and state game agencies have been caught in so many lies, everything they say has to be verified by wolves or the public
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Wolf kill fails to placate Washington rancher
August 9, 2012
"They distort facts so much, they've lied to us continually on this thing," he said. "First they said there was no wolves in the area. We showed them that there was. Then they said there might be wolves, but they'll never eat a cow. We showed them that they did."
McIrvin said wolf activity has been escalating. Last year 11 calves and five bulls were killed, he said. He will tally how many have been killed this year in the fall.
http://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/state_national/wolf-kill-fails-to-placate-washington-rancher/article_f9b7ebce-e264-11e1-811c-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=print--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheriff's office investigates wolf attacks-November 01, 2012
"Wolves are new to this state," Mitch Friedman, executive director of nonprofit corporation Conservation Northwest. "My understanding from the writing of experts in the Rockies is it takes a lot of experience to identify a wolf kill."
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As you can see from the information I have provided, the wolf situation in WA state is a Top-Down problem. Scott Fitkin is just doing his job. He is a tool and not a very good one for WDFW as he has been proven to be dishonest on several occasion. WDFW is now having the same problems as Fitkin---they have lost their credibility. I have talked with other WDFW employees who disagree with WDFW's handling of wolves in WA and their hands are tied when the truth is being told. In other words, their jobs are on the line. The recent wolf attack on John's dog may be the beginning of WDFW's glass house shattering all over hells half acre. Reports of other wolf attacks that WDFW had hidden to protect their wolves reputation can't be doing them any good either.
I have also heard there are some biologists who work for WDFW that believe wolves should be hunted as a predator. Being that wolves are an agenda driven endangered species, it is better that they are not heard making such statements to the public.
What is and has happened in the Methow Valley is happening all over WA. So far WDFW has been able to cover it up with BS, but wolves are now eating their way into the public eye in such a way it will soon be hard to hide and a truer number of wolves will begin to become evident. WDFW's wolf count is a joke and they know it. What will their new wolf story be? Remember Idaho, you can't stack wolves on top of wolves?
WDFW has the play book of the original wolf introduction to go by, and so far they have done a very good job. They refuse to confirm wolf packs, they have ignored the impacts wolves are having on game herds, and they refuse to confirm livestock and pets killed by wolves unless they are forced to do so.
Do you think the wolf problem will get better? How many people think the wolves in WA will ever be controlled? Controlled anywhere for that matter hunted as a big game animal?
WDFW has been buying up land all over WA. Many hunters, etc.feel that is great news, but what happens when there is nothing left to hunt? Will all of this land be shut down to public use? Why does WDFW need so much land if they are promoting and protecting wolves, wolves that will decimate all wildlife? Why haven't we heard anything from Defenders of Wildlife? Are they letting Conservation NW pack their water while they wait in the shadows for suing times that WA is sure to experience?
What happened to WDFW's wolves of the 1990's?
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