Teanaway Wolf Shot in British Columbia Pigpen

[bearpaw]

Washington Wolf News (Early June 2012)

By Andy Walgamott, on June 4th, 2012
Full Story Here:  http://nwsportsmanmag.com/2012/06/04/washington-wolf-news-early-june-2012/

As for that dispersing wolf from the Teanaway Pack, a map indicates the yearling female -- which was captured and collared last September -- left its home territory in north-central Kittitas County in mid- to late March, zigzagged through the Colockum and Chelan County, turned up to the south of the Lookout Pack's range, headed up Washington's Okanogan Valley to British Columbia's Okanagan Lake and crested the divide into the upper Columbia River watershed before the dots of its progress end about 60 or 70 miles north of Kootenay Lake in late May.
 
"She's been on a walkabout for quite some time," says Pozzanghera.
 
However, its roughly 500-mile journey came to an abrupt end around May 21.
 
Pozzanghera says it was shot and killed in the pig sty of a local farmer. He says its carcass was turned over to a trapper -- working in the area after complaints from the farmer -- who in turn provided it to the BC Ministry of Environment which called WDFW.
 
The agency is making arrangement to get the collar and pelt back, he says.
 
Doug Zimmer of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in Lacey, Wash., says the skin will be used as an "educational display to teach people more about wolves."
 
The Teanaway disperser's journey was much more typical than the one of that internationally known wanderer, Oregon's OR7, currently in southwestern Lassen County, Calif.
 
"Dispersers are very vulnerable. They have no support from a pack, they're in country they don't know, they're hard up for food all the time," says Zimmer. "Lone wolves are romantic, but they don't survive well. Wolves are built to run and live in packs."
 
It's the second Washington wolf that's been killed out of state. Late last December, a female from the Diamond Pack of Pend Oreille County was legally trapped and killed 300 yards across the state line in Idaho.

The commission's presentation also includes a briefing and photos from the probable wolf depredation of a 200-pound calf on a Carlton ranch on May 19.
 
Pozzanghera says that the state's trapper for the area is just now getting the correct gear on the ground to capture and collar members of the Lookout Pack.

PATH OF THE DISPERSING TEANAWAY FEMALE, TRACKED BY GPS. THE MAP SHOWS ROUGHLY 60 DOTS FOR THE COURSE OF THE 70-DAY TREK. (ODFW)

[danderson]

This is very interesting, the fact that these lone wolfs can find there way so far from there home range, especilly a female, lets only hope that the rest of the Teanaway pack follows the same path!

[bearpaw]

This really explains why we have so many wolves moving in from Canada and Idaho.

Other documented cases include OR-7 leaving NE Oregon and traveling across Oregon from corner to corner and then all over northern California.

Another documented wolf traveled from Yellowstone to northwest Montana, then through Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and into Colorado where it died. all in less than six months.

If we have this many wolves documented as traveling long distances to find new homes, there is no guessing how many more wolves are traveling this far or farther, we really don't know all that is happening with wolf movement.

[bearpaw]

Another thing that this traveling of wolves tells us:

It seems agencies know more about wolf movement at times than they are telling the people about. This is the first I've heard about this wolf traveling far north into B.C., yet the map shows that the agency has been recieving signals from the wolf during the entire time it traveled northward.

I want to know how many wolves the agencies know are in Washington and how many are pioneering in other new areas in other states that they are not telling the people about. 

[MtnMuley]

   Very good point.

[humanure]

The fact that they travel is not something new. The state shouldn't have to reveal the location of every single wolf, as that puts the animal in a threatened position from those that want to shoot it. Common sense, really.

[ICEMAN]

The fact that they travel is not something new. The state shouldn't have to reveal the location of every single wolf, as that puts the animal in a threatened position from those that want to shoot it. Common sense, really.

Why do you feel they can conceal information they have? With public disclosure laws the way they are in this state, where every cop's home address is public record, don't you think that every bit of information that the state knows about wolves and their internal planning on the issue should also be available to the public? I though liberals liked transparency?

[buckfvr]

WDFW has been dishonest about so many things for so long, its highly unlikely they will become honest about the wolves.   

[Wenatcheejay]

The fact that they travel is not something new. The state shouldn't have to reveal the location of every single wolf, as that puts the animal in a threatened position from those that want to shoot it. Common sense, really.

Transparency should be at the heart of this project. Nobody expects a beacon locator but several people believe that there are far more animals than are being counted. WDFW all but openly admits that.

[GrainfedMuley]

The fact that they travel is not something new. The state shouldn't have to reveal the location of every single wolf, as that puts the animal in a threatened position from those that want to shoot it. Common sense, really.

Yes they should for that very reason. Yes it is common sense to track down a killer and take care of it.

[Killmore]

The fact that they travel is not something new. The state shouldn't have to reveal the location of every single wolf, as that puts the animal in a threatened position from those that want to shoot it. Common sense, really.

The state uses  our money and works for US,I think they should reveal...everything

[humanure]

Thats like hiring an artist for his skills, but while he begins to paint, you demand sketches of the art to come for you to see. I cannot speak for the dept. obviously, but I can understand why they would withhold certain info. Certain people display motives and actions, and you have to react to that for the good of what you are doing.

[wraithen]

No, it is nothing like that. What are you smoking? The projects of our government are not art. Look at all the government offices and you can see that much. The only reason to conceal something is for safety. It's too much to ask to conceal a cops address but not for a wolf? They watch these wolves all the time, it'd be difficult for someone to poach a watched wolf. Not so hard to "poach" a cop in this state as has been proven many many times.

[humanure]

Well, i agree that its wrong that they do that to cops. I'm very pro-law enforcement.

[wraithen]

I'm very pro air. You're arguement this time is baseless and tasteless. They are spending our money and pretending they need to spend more when they don't. This issue adds into more problems than just the wolves. State doesn't seem trustworthy. They will soon be treated as such if they keep this crap up.