Wolf Recovery in Washington
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Wolf Recovery in Washington
In o8 WDWL discovered "New Wolf Pack" the very same day as Oregon. Seem a little strange, what with the wolves on their way to delisting. Despite numerouse wolf reports pryor to the new wolf pack discovery. WDWL are claiming that as of o8 Washington is just now starting wolf recovery. In Okanogan County we have had wolves for several years. Many sightings and several trail cam pictures of the Canadian gray wolves have been taken in the Methow Valley. The Washington wolf plan has NO plan for hunting wolves as a management tool, instead they plan on translocating wolves throughout Washington. All of you folks who understand and know what wolves will do to Washington if wolves are allowed to over populate, should check the wolf site out below and support the Minority wolf management plan, that calls for fewer wolves and hunting as a management tool.
http://washingtonwolf.info/
Here is a little history, that some would rather you did not see.
Check dates on each article, as you go down the paper trail you might see things that don't quite add up for just now starting wolf recovery in Washington.
Washington's Wolves Are Back
Posted by Eric de Place
07/19/2008 08:00 AM
Wolf-less no longer as Washington's wildlife returns.
A state biologist said Monday that he believes one or more packs of gray wolves are living in the Methow Valley...
Packers have made numerous reports of wolves in the high country in the past couple of years, and there have been increasing reports by residents in lower elevations, he said.
Fitkin said there have been reliable wolf sightings in the Methow dating to the early 1990s, but only sporadic, unconfirmed reports of wolf packs.
"What's changed recently is that we've had repeated observations of multiple animals in the greater Twisp River/Chelan Sawtooth and Libby Creek areas," he said, adding, "My suspicion is, based on the sighting history, its development is very similar to how recolonization in the Rockies occurred. This is looking like we very well may have some wolves on the landscape."--------- (via"Three pickup trucks in lower Alder Creek")
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/ … s-are-back
Friday, November 1, 2002 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Conservation groups want U.S. to restore gray wolves in state
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Two conservation groups are calling on the federal government to restore gray wolves to Washington state, saying it's time to "hear the call of the wild again" in Western Washington forests.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance said yesterday they have sent a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requesting that the agency restore and protect gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
"Gray wolves have an important role to play in the ecological health and character of the Pacific Northwest, and the federal government should start getting serious about restoring the species here," said Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife. "It's time to hear the call of the wild again in these beautiful forests."
The petition urges the service to establish a category known as a distinct population segment for gray wolves in Washington state.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ywolves01m
Wednesday, February 5, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Endangered Gray Wolf Trapped Near Mt. Baker
By Eric Pryne
For the first time in anyone's memory, wildlife biologists have captured an endangered gray wolf in Washington.
State Wildlife Department biologists said they trapped the animal, a healthy 56-pound female, near Mount Baker last Friday. The wolf was fitted with a radio collar and released the next day on national forest land a few miles away.
The capture is an exciting development, said John Pierce, manager of the department's non-game program. "If she's part of a pack, we should know it pretty soon," he said.
The gray wolf, listed as endangered in every state but Minnesota and Alaska, disappeared from Washington in the early 1900s. But reports of wolf sightings in the wild North Cascades have increased in recent years. In 1990 biologists discovered two dens - the first time wolves had been sighted in the state since 1975.
Pierce said the animals probably are migrating south from Canada, where wolves still are hunted.
"It appears we're in the early stages of re-colonization of the former range in Washington," he said. There's evidence the animals are breeding as far south as the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area just north of Stevens Pass, Pierce added.
According to a Wildlife Department statement, the captured wolf, nicknamed "Nooksack," had been seen several times in recent weeks near a winter-cabin community outside Glacier, Whatcom County. After trying for 10 days, biologists Jon Almack and Scott Fitkin succeeded in luring the animal into a fenced swimming-pool area, using a fish carcass as bait.
Once she was inside, the gate was closed. The wolf was tranquilized, and a local veterinarian took X-rays of her skull to verify her species.
Pierce said Almack and Fitkin are participating in a long-range study of the gray wolf's relationship with its environment in Washington, including diet, movement and range.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ug=1473981
Copyright (c) 1992 Seattle Times Company, All Rights Reserved.
Sunday, December 6, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Wolves Coming Back To Cascades
By Patty Wren
Wenatchee World
TWISP, Okanogan County - We may not be dancing with wolves, but they're here, their numbers are growing and it is possible to coexist with them in relative peace.
In the Okanogan, one or more wolves have been spotted in five separate areas since 1989.
The plan is to let the wolves - moving into old haunts south of Canada after hunting stopped there in the 1970s - reproduce themselves, said Jon Almak, a state Department of Wildlife biologist.
Biologists are trying to write a wolf-recovery plan for Washington.
Originally planned as part of a recovery program for the northern Rockies, where wolves were brought in, the effort could become unique to Washington because of the apparently burgeoning population.
For example, 100 sightings were reported in 1981, and last year there were 200, ranging as far south as Mount St. Helens, Almak said.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ug=1528536
Friday, April 17, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Gray Wolves' Return Subject Of Monday Meeting
Times Staff
State wildlife agents already have identified six packs of wolves in Washington's Cascades, and more are expected to migrate from Canada to the state's protected forests.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/noca/wolf.htm
Where have wolves been seen in the North Cascades?
Since 1984, wolves have been seen roaming in the vicinity of Ross Lake (Ross Lake National Recreation Area in Washington and Skagit Valley Recreation Area in British Columbia) on both sides of the International Boundary. Wolves were photographed near Hozomeen (shown at left) at the north end of Ross Lake in 1991. Locations of other sightings in the North Cascades include McAlester Pass, Pasayten Wilderness and Twisp River drainage of the Okanogan National Forest, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and Stevens Pass.
Are gray wolves reproducing in the North Cascades?
In 1990, adults with pups were seen in the Hozomeen area. This was the first known reproduction of wild wolves in Washington State in at least 50 years! Since 1990, biologists have seen three separate groups of adult wolves with pups in the Cascades. Wolves mate in February or March. About 63 days later a litter averaging six pups is born.
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http://washingtonwolf.info/
Here is a little history, that some would rather you did not see.
Check dates on each article, as you go down the paper trail you might see things that don't quite add up for just now starting wolf recovery in Washington.
Washington's Wolves Are Back
Posted by Eric de Place
07/19/2008 08:00 AM
Wolf-less no longer as Washington's wildlife returns.
A state biologist said Monday that he believes one or more packs of gray wolves are living in the Methow Valley...
Packers have made numerous reports of wolves in the high country in the past couple of years, and there have been increasing reports by residents in lower elevations, he said.
Fitkin said there have been reliable wolf sightings in the Methow dating to the early 1990s, but only sporadic, unconfirmed reports of wolf packs.
"What's changed recently is that we've had repeated observations of multiple animals in the greater Twisp River/Chelan Sawtooth and Libby Creek areas," he said, adding, "My suspicion is, based on the sighting history, its development is very similar to how recolonization in the Rockies occurred. This is looking like we very well may have some wolves on the landscape."--------- (via"Three pickup trucks in lower Alder Creek")
http://daily.sightline.org/daily_score/ … s-are-back
Friday, November 1, 2002 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
E-mail article Print view
Conservation groups want U.S. to restore gray wolves in state
By Matthew Daly
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Two conservation groups are calling on the federal government to restore gray wolves to Washington state, saying it's time to "hear the call of the wild again" in Western Washington forests.
Defenders of Wildlife and the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance said yesterday they have sent a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requesting that the agency restore and protect gray wolves under the Endangered Species Act.
"Gray wolves have an important role to play in the ecological health and character of the Pacific Northwest, and the federal government should start getting serious about restoring the species here," said Rodger Schlickeisen, president of Defenders of Wildlife. "It's time to hear the call of the wild again in these beautiful forests."
The petition urges the service to establish a category known as a distinct population segment for gray wolves in Washington state.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ywolves01m
Wednesday, February 5, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Endangered Gray Wolf Trapped Near Mt. Baker
By Eric Pryne
For the first time in anyone's memory, wildlife biologists have captured an endangered gray wolf in Washington.
State Wildlife Department biologists said they trapped the animal, a healthy 56-pound female, near Mount Baker last Friday. The wolf was fitted with a radio collar and released the next day on national forest land a few miles away.
The capture is an exciting development, said John Pierce, manager of the department's non-game program. "If she's part of a pack, we should know it pretty soon," he said.
The gray wolf, listed as endangered in every state but Minnesota and Alaska, disappeared from Washington in the early 1900s. But reports of wolf sightings in the wild North Cascades have increased in recent years. In 1990 biologists discovered two dens - the first time wolves had been sighted in the state since 1975.
Pierce said the animals probably are migrating south from Canada, where wolves still are hunted.
"It appears we're in the early stages of re-colonization of the former range in Washington," he said. There's evidence the animals are breeding as far south as the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area just north of Stevens Pass, Pierce added.
According to a Wildlife Department statement, the captured wolf, nicknamed "Nooksack," had been seen several times in recent weeks near a winter-cabin community outside Glacier, Whatcom County. After trying for 10 days, biologists Jon Almack and Scott Fitkin succeeded in luring the animal into a fenced swimming-pool area, using a fish carcass as bait.
Once she was inside, the gate was closed. The wolf was tranquilized, and a local veterinarian took X-rays of her skull to verify her species.
Pierce said Almack and Fitkin are participating in a long-range study of the gray wolf's relationship with its environment in Washington, including diet, movement and range.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ug=1473981
Copyright (c) 1992 Seattle Times Company, All Rights Reserved.
Sunday, December 6, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
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Wolves Coming Back To Cascades
By Patty Wren
Wenatchee World
TWISP, Okanogan County - We may not be dancing with wolves, but they're here, their numbers are growing and it is possible to coexist with them in relative peace.
In the Okanogan, one or more wolves have been spotted in five separate areas since 1989.
The plan is to let the wolves - moving into old haunts south of Canada after hunting stopped there in the 1970s - reproduce themselves, said Jon Almak, a state Department of Wildlife biologist.
Biologists are trying to write a wolf-recovery plan for Washington.
Originally planned as part of a recovery program for the northern Rockies, where wolves were brought in, the effort could become unique to Washington because of the apparently burgeoning population.
For example, 100 sightings were reported in 1981, and last year there were 200, ranging as far south as Mount St. Helens, Almak said.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource. … ug=1528536
Friday, April 17, 1992 - Page updated at 12:00 AM
E-mail article Print view
Gray Wolves' Return Subject Of Monday Meeting
Times Staff
State wildlife agents already have identified six packs of wolves in Washington's Cascades, and more are expected to migrate from Canada to the state's protected forests.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/noca/wolf.htm
Where have wolves been seen in the North Cascades?
Since 1984, wolves have been seen roaming in the vicinity of Ross Lake (Ross Lake National Recreation Area in Washington and Skagit Valley Recreation Area in British Columbia) on both sides of the International Boundary. Wolves were photographed near Hozomeen (shown at left) at the north end of Ross Lake in 1991. Locations of other sightings in the North Cascades include McAlester Pass, Pasayten Wilderness and Twisp River drainage of the Okanogan National Forest, Glacier Peak Wilderness, and Stevens Pass.
Are gray wolves reproducing in the North Cascades?
In 1990, adults with pups were seen in the Hozomeen area. This was the first known reproduction of wild wolves in Washington State in at least 50 years! Since 1990, biologists have seen three separate groups of adult wolves with pups in the Cascades. Wolves mate in February or March. About 63 days later a litter averaging six pups is born.
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