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Colorado Parks and Wildlife said any wolves that have been near livestock will have some history of depredation and said this includes all packs in Oregon. This, according to CPW, ought not exclude wolves from...

SENECA — After two confirmed wolf depredations, eight days apart on his property in recent weeks, Bear Valley cattle rancher Alec Oliver has been awarded the first wolf lethal take permit in the history of Grant County. Two adult female cows, at four and five years of age, had their rear udders ripped apart on the Oliver Ranch in late October and early November, according to Oliver. One of them was hamstrung, he said. Oliver’s two confirmed depredations come just weeks prior to the s...

The number of documented wolves in Oregon stayed relatively steady in 2022, but the number of confirmed wolf attacks on livestock increased by 55%.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has extended a permit allowing a cattle rancher in northeast Oregon to kill one wolf from the Chesnimnus pack.

GRANT COUNTY — A rancher on the Middle Fork of the John Day River has become Grant County’s second producer to lose livestock to a confirmed wolf depredation.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) released the 2021 annual wolf report this week. Unfortunately, the report shows that 2021 was not a great one for wolves.