Post by: whiteeyes on December 28, 2011, 07:36:32 PM
Post by: Mark Brenckle on December 28, 2011, 07:59:01 PM
Post by: rasbo on December 28, 2011, 08:12:46 PM
Oregon biologists have found a gray wolf in one of the state's four known packs, bringing the state's wolf count to 25.
The Oregonian reports that ( http://is.gd/k5Tqlt) photos captured by an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife remote camera show that the state's Wenaha pack produced a pup earlier this year.
The pup is shown sniffing the snow and then testing the air.
"One could presume he's still traveling with an adult," ODFW spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy said, though the images show the pup alone.
The photos - from a camera in a forest in western Wallowa County - show a half-grown young wolf with a full coat of gray fur. They provide the first indication that the pack's alpha male and female reproduced.
Dennehy said the pup is believed to have been born last spring, likely in April.
The total of 25 wolves is "the number we can account for," Dennehy said, but there could be more wolves that state biologists don't yet know about.
With confirmation that the Wenaha pack had a pup, state biologists say all of Oregon's four wolf packs have reproduced this year.
The packs are all in the state's rugged northeastern corner.
The Imnaha, Wenaha and Snake River packs all dropped at least one pup, and the Walla Walla pack had at least three pups. Only the Walla Walla pack is considered a "breeding pair" for conservation purposes, meaning the pack produced at least two pups that survived through the end of the year into which they were born.
The largest pack in Oregon is the Walla Walla, with six wolves. The Imnaha, Walla Walla and Snake River packs each had five. Two other wolves roam northern Umatilla County, along with two "dispersers" in northeastern Oregon.
The first physical evidence that wolves had returned to Oregon by migrating across the Snake River from Idaho came in 2007, when a rancher found tracks on the south end of the Eagle Cap Wilderness.
Post by: Mark Brenckle on December 28, 2011, 08:31:29 PM
Post by: buckhorn2 on December 28, 2011, 08:47:53 PM
Post by: rasbo on December 28, 2011, 08:48:39 PM
Rasbo - at least they can account for some of their wolves, I haven't seen that much detail from WDFW about any of the existing wolf packs in WA.what bothers me is,they only count the one pair as a breeding pair
Post by: rasbo on December 28, 2011, 08:49:48 PM
Looks like the only way to convince biologists that wolves are a problem would be to put one of those collars on them and let them wander around on the ranchers property to see if wolves are whats eating his animals. Seems like biologists have tunnel vision from reading the same books listening to the same professers and then sticking there head in the sand there like alligators all mouth and no ears.they are doing that in oregon,but doubt you will see it here
Post by: GrainfedMuley on December 30, 2011, 12:03:04 AM
It is a good video. Already posted.
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,89195.0.html
Post by: bearpaw on January 02, 2012, 09:22:12 AM
Post by: C-Money on January 02, 2012, 09:57:54 AM
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Post by: C-Money on January 02, 2012, 10:21:06 AM