Video of wolves attacking humans in Alaska!

So you think wolves are afraid of humans, just ask these ladies how afraid they are!

Let the wolf hunt begin! Judge stays injunction to stop wolf hunting season!

SEATTLE: Bow-and-arrow hunters already have shot 17 of Montana's once-threatened wolf population since a controversial hunt started at the beginning of September, while 60 wolves have been killed in neighbouring Idaho.

Now, big game rifle-hunting season is about to start, bringing thousands of hunters into the mountains at a time when early snowfall will make wolves much easier to spot and chase.

Conservation groups went to court this week seeking an emergency injunction to block the hunts until a federal appeals court can decide whether they're legal to begin with.  ''General rifle season is about to start in Montana; it just started in Idaho. About 37,000 people now have wolf-hunting permits, and they're going to be going with high-powered rifles and long-range scopes after a little more than a thousand wolves,'' Michael Garrity, executive director of Alliance for the Wild Rockies, said in an interview.

He said a coalition of groups, including Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians, had asked the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on an emergency order, pending a hearing next month on claims that the fast-track federal legislation that authorised the hunts is illegal.

The court denied the request for an immediate stop, ruling the ''motion for injunction pending appeal will be considered at the time of oral argument on November 8, 2011''.   ''With the snow about to fly … the very survival of Northern Rocky Mountain wolves may be at stake,'' Wendy Keefover of WildEarth Guardians said in a statement.

There are about 1400 wolves in the two states, a number the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded is adequate to allow a hunt and still sustain the population.

Many residents of Idaho and Montana say the predator numbers have become so large while wolves were protected under the Endangered Species Act that livestock are threatened and herds of game animals such as elk are declining.

After repeated delays in getting federal wolf protections lifted, federal politicians from Idaho and Montana in August attached a rider to the must-pass federal budget bill that eliminated protections and cleared the way for the hunts.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Montana upheld the wolf delisting, but conservationists argued he was bound by precedent and did so only reluctantly.

''Inserting environmental policy changes into appropriations bills may be politically expedient, but it transgresses the process envisioned by the Constitution by avoiding the very debate on issues of political importance said to provide legitimacy,'' Molloy wrote.

''Policy changes of questionable political viability, such as occurred here, can be forced using insider tactics without debate by attaching riders to legislation that must be passed.''

Oregon Ranchers to be compensated for wolves killing livestock

Calf killed by wolf in Eastern Oregon

SALEM - The Oregon Senate Friday passes Oregon's wolf coexistence and livestock 
compensation program. With unanimous support of the Legislature and a strong endorsement from Gov. John Kitzhaber, this program will help ensure that ranchers have incentives to do the right thing for livestock and wolves. The new program will compensate them for livestock lost to wolves, but only if they demonstrate that they have taken common-sense steps to minimize their losses. 

The Canadian gray wolf if an invasive species that has been reintroduced into Oregon 2 years ago.   These wolves have been responsible for killing several cows and many sheep in the Eastern Oregon area.  Not to mention all the Elk and deer these wolves have killed in the past several years.  There have been 5 reported cases of cattle being killed by a pack of wolves in Oregon this year.

State wildlife managers helped landowners get rid of five cattle bone piles this year, and many ranchers have taken it upon themselves to remove carcasses during the winter and spring. Wolves are attracted to easy meals such as this. 


Organizations have urged ranchers to add a range rider or a team of guard dogs and penning animals in at night, which would not be cost effective for any rancher.  They say it's a small price to pay to protect livestock and secure a better future for wolves in Oregon.  


The Defenders of Wildlife organization says "Oregon has a unique opportunity to duplicate what's been accomplished in Idaho on a much bigger scale. State wildlife managers, forward-thinking ranchers and various conservation groups have already been paving the way toward coexistence. We can and should continue to find better ways to share the landscape with wolves."


Essentially we have people who don't have to live with wolves telling the people that do, that they need to deal with it.  I would like to trap a couple of wolves and let them loose in their neighborhood and see if they would defend keeping them around!

Wolves killing cattle in Eastern Oregon (video)

It is a wonder they let these killers back in the State of Oregon. The reason wolves were killed off last century was that they were killing not only elk and deer but also livestock. 

Wolves Spreading in Oregon!

CROOK COUNTY - Two different wolves from Northeast Oregon’s Imnaha pack have been spotted a long way from home in recent months. One was confirmed in Harney County, and another one with a radio collar has been tracked all the way into Central Oregon’s Crook County.

A story in the Bend Bulletin this weekend reported on the first wolf to be spotted in Central Oregon in 70 years. U.S. Fish and Wildlife wolf coordinator John Stephenson picked up the signal from Imnaha wolf OR-3 in late September while flying over the Ochoco Mountains in northern Crook County. But the signal hasn’t been picked up again since then.

It’s the first confirmation of a wolf in Central Oregon since wolves returned to Oregon, though there have been numerous unconfirmed reports. The wolf’s father is the Imnaha pack alpha male, one of two Imnaha wildlife officials are planning to kill to reduce livestock losses.

Counties unite in defending killing of Oregon wolves

CANYON CITY - Grant and Umatilla Counties are joining Wallowa County in defending the killing of Oregon wolves as part of the state wolf management plan.

The Oregon Court of Appeals earlier this month granted a stay sought by three environmental groups that halted an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to kill two wolves from the Imnaha pack in Wallowa County.

The wolves were blamed for killing cattle in Wallowa County.

Wallowa County officials, taking up the cause of local ranchers, decided to allocate $5,000 to file a brief in the case. They asked other Eastern Oregon counties to support the effort.

The county boards in Grant and Umatilla Counties each met Wednesday, Oct. 19, and agreed to add their counties to the effort. Each county board approved up to $1,000.

ODFW announced the plan to kill the two wolves – the alpha male and a younger male – on Sept. 30, after the pack was linked to a calf killing near Joseph.

Since then state wildlife officials have confirmed another calf kill, bringing the number of confirmed livestock kills this year to eight, all in Wallowa County.

The wildlife groups - Cascadia Wildlands, Center for Biological Diversity and Oregon Wild - in an Oct. 5 filing also challenged the state's authority to exterminate problem wolves, calling that a violation of the state Endangered Species Act.

The groups obtained the stay order a day after an ODFW employee shot at but apparently missed the sub-adult wolf. The state has until Oct. 26 to file its response to the lawsuit.

"The Oregon wolf population is too endangered to sustain killings, and moreover that non-lethal measures are more effective at reducing livestock depredations than lethal measures are," said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director of Center for Biological Diversity, today.

The Oregon Attorney General's Office is defending the wolf management plan and the administrative rule being challenged by environmental groups.

On Oct. 18, Wallowa County Commissioners sent out a request for support from other counties.

"The general feeling of the attorneys is that the more counties that participate, the more impact we will have on the case," wrote Wallowa County Commission Chairman Mike Hayward.

"Our neighbor Wallowa County is at the front lines of the wolf issue," said Umatilla County Commission Chairman Bill Hansel. "Their producers are experiencing the most predation and our livestock growers are very concerned as well. "