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Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
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PRESS RELEASE: [ODFW-News]
Commission approves revisions to
Oregon wolf plan 12/1/05
Salem, Oregon - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission Thursday reiterated its support for the
Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan as it
approved moving certain sections of the plan to an
appendix because they are not allowed under state
law.
The Commission said
it would continue
to work with livestock owners, wolf
conservationists and the Oregon Legislature to
obtain the needed law changes to provide livestock
producers with flexibility to protect their
animals.
The sections moved to an appendix
called for the
Legislature to:
* Designate the wolf as a 'special status mammal' under the game mammal statute, * Allow livestock owners without a permit to kill wolves caught 'in the act' of killing livestock, and * Create a state-funded program to pay compensation for wolf-caused livestock losses and for proactive methods to prevent wolf depredation.
The three
proposed legislative enhancements were not acted
on by the 2005 Oregon Legislature. The
rest of the plan remains unchanged.
The Commission approved the Oregon wolf plan last
February after a
comprehensive public involvement effort.
Oregon's wolf plan does not call for
actively
reintroducing wolves from other states or
provinces, but
managing wolves that
naturally
disperse into Oregon.
No wolves are confirmed in Oregon at this time,
but biologists expect wolves to establish a
permanent Oregon population as the Idaho wolf
population grows and disperses.
Wolves currently
are protected under both the state and
federal
endangered species acts.
The seven-member Commission is the rulemaking body
for fish and wildlife issues in Oregon.
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