new wolf rules

[NASCAR88]

The first one just kills me. Now they will allow a wolf to kill four cows before they do anything.

SALEM, Ore.--The Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted new permanent Oregon Administrative Rules to manage wolves in Oregon when it met by phone today. The new rules are based on agreements reached between ODFW, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands and the Oregon Cattlemen?s Association through settlement of a lawsuit.

The new rules can be found online and make the following key changes:
?Before ODFW can use lethal control against wolves, it must confirm four qualifying incidents within a six-month time frame (previously it was two depredation incidents and no specific timeframe).
?Require agency coordination with a wider array of interests once wolf activity is known in an area.
?Require the development and public disclosure of area specific wolf-livestock conflict deterrence plans that identify non-lethal measures to minimize conflict.
?Require that non-lethal measures be implemented prior to a depredation for the depredation incident to count towards lethal control

 

[TOPGUN]

No wonder more and more folks are just saying to practice the SSS method!

 

[Brute]

A wolf could kill more then one or two domesticated fowl at a time. It's not just cattle.
That would make the offence add up pretty quickly against a pack.
Cattlemen's Association would not have gone along with it if they thought they would have to wait till the wolves had killed off their livelihood.




(1) This rule describes the types of harassment and take of wolves allowed by persons outside ODFW (or ODFW or Wildlife Services acting as their agent) during Phase I ? (Conservation: 0?4 breeding pairs) as called for in chapter III of the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan. Other chapters of the Plan authorize ODFW to take wolves for other specified wildlife management purposes. For OAR 635-110-0010, 635-110-0020 and 635-110-0030, "livestock" means horses, jackasses, cattle, llamas, alpacas, sheep, goats, swine, domesticated fowl, any fur-bearing animal bred and maintained (commercially or otherwise) within pens, cages and hutches, bison and working dogs. "Working dogs" means guarding dogs and herding dogs.


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[oneaway]

Amen Topgun