Wolf Pair Confirmed in Okanogan

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Lowedog:
There is a lot of private and federal funding out there for wolf re-introduction. I know lots of people claim to have seen wolves but the WDFW has been denying it for years. This is the first they have confirmed a mating pair and within the last couple weeks they have gone from getting answers to howles to capturing and collaring both the male and female mating pair and now we have some peculiar pics of them and the pups?

A guy I know told me he came 20 feet from a collared wolf 2 weeks ago near Cle Elum. He may be pulling my leg but I don't know of him to tell lies. Actually he was digging for rocks and turned around to see the wolf staring at him from across the road. Said it scared the hell out of him. Said it sniffed the 5 gallon buckets he had to carry rocks in and just walked off down the road.

Now if that is true and he did see a collared wolf there wouldn't someone know where that wolf is also?

Call me a theorist but I wouldn't doubt there are reintroduced wolves in Washington.

-Lowedog

WDFW-SUX:
Here is your smoking gun........

The North Cascades Ecosystem is among
Washington's most promising wolf habitat and is a potential connection to an
existing B.C. population. The area encompasses
portions of the Okanogan, Wenatchee, and
Mount-Baker Snoqualmie National Forests In 1990 gray wolves were documented with pups within the U.S. portion of the signaling a great deal of attention from the media, public, and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (FWS). As a result, $135,000 in
Section 6 federal funding was appropriated for both
FY 1991 and 1992 primarily for the purpose of
conducting surveys, maintaining a wolf sighting
hotline, gathering information necessary to develop
a recovery plan, and ultimately initiating recovery
activities"

Slenk:
Interesting read here. As I know this area and guys.
http://shootersforum.com/showthread.htm?p=357519#post357519
Slenk

WAcoyotehunter:

--- Quote from: Passion on July 24, 2008, 03:59:17 PM ---Here is your smoking gun........

The North Cascades Ecosystem is among
Washington's most promising wolf habitat and is a potential connection to an
existing B.C. population. The area encompasses
portions of the Okanogan, Wenatchee, and
Mount-Baker Snoqualmie National Forests In 1990 gray wolves were documented with pups within the U.S. portion of the signaling a great deal of attention from the media, public, and the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (FWS). As a result, $135,000 in
Section 6 federal funding was appropriated for both
FY 1991 and 1992 primarily for the purpose of
conducting surveys, maintaining a wolf sighting
hotline, gathering information necessary to develop
a recovery plan, and ultimately initiating recovery
activities"

--- End quote ---

That's not exactly a smoking gun. Recovery activites may not include re-introduction. Also keep in mind that the money was appropriated almost twenty years ago. How long do you think 135k goes in a project like this? Usually about ten minutes when the buearocrats start their process.

We had a collered wolf in NE washington about ten years ago. A USFW biologist was flying home from a wolf tracking study in MT and happened to have his tracker on. They'd lost a wolf and had no idea where to look...so, he was listening to it while flying and got a hit in GMU 117. The wolf was dead, but the collar and data was there.

Sooo, the point is, there was a wolf with a collar in WA that was NOT planted here. It's possible.

Lowedog:
Anything is possible. Right? ;)

I have to wonder why, with all the reports of sightings and howling over the years that this is the first time that there really has been so much of an effort to prove that there is a breeding pair in WA now? Where did the funding come from to capture and collar these wolves?

-Lowedog

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