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If you are interested in attending a pre-hearing meeting with other conservationists before the public hearing to learn more about the plan, please contact the person listed below each meeting. All the hearings will be from 6: The pre-hearing meetings will start at 5: Jessica Walz, jessica gptaskforce. David Graves, dgraves npca. Monday, October 26th — Colville N.

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Wolves have returned to Washington State after 70 years of extirpation and state wildlife managers are seeking public comments on their draft plan to manage and conserve the species. The page document released for comment on Oct. The document includes a page draft environmental impact statement with four alternatives. Alternatives one, two and three are detailed in the draft EIS and have different standards for protection and restoration for wolves.

Levels of lethal control strategy and compensation for losses to livestock owners also differ, according to the document summary. Alternative four is a no-action alternative with no recovery requirements established.

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It would continue the current management, emphasizing protection and restoration with existing programs but without a plan. Wolves would remain endangered until a state recovery plan was completed. The first three alternatives set recovery requirements at six successful pairs of breeding wolves before downlisting the animals to threatened. The animals would be downlisted to sensitive when 12 pairs were successfully breeding. Delisting would occur at 15 pairs.

The first three alternatives differ in objectives for wolf distribution, use of management control options and level of compensation for depredation losses to livestock owners. Alternative one would implement lethal control options at earlier listing statuses and sets a lower standard for geographic distribution of recovery objectives. State downlisting and delisting could occur with the majority of animals present in just one or two recovery regions.

It would allow earlier implementation of management tools for addressing livestock conflicts and recommends less generous compensation for depredation. Alternative three has the greatest emphasis on protection and restoration of wolves, with a higher standard for the geographic distribution of wolves. It is the most conservative on implementing management tools to address livestock conflicts and is the most generous with compensation to livestock owners.

Livestock owners would be allowed to kill wolves in the act of attacking livestock under all alternatives, but at different listed statuses. Alternative one would allow lethal take during all listed statuses, alternative two preferred by the agency would allow lethal take when wolves reach threatened status and alternative three would permit killing during the sensitive status.

Each alternative also has provisions for killing wolves in the act of attacking domestic dogs. The draft plan includes alternative proactive measures to reduce livestock depredation, manage for healthy ungulate populations, manage wolf-ungulate conflict, and conduct outreach and education programs.

WDFW anticipated taking over gray wolf management from federal wildlife managers and initiated development of the draft plan for the endangered species in The agency started the plan based on the wolf conservation and management plan adopted by Oregon in Luers said that Washington was similar to Oregon in that it was not part of the federal wolf recovery efforts in the Rocky Mountain region.

In late the agency sought citizen advisors, volunteers with a stake in conservation, livestock, hunting and the economics of wolf management. A public scoping meeting in Twisp drew 31 attendees in August The agency invited wolf experts from near and far to review the draft plan and about 45 responded, said Luers. The scientific reviewers included David Meach, the most prominent author on wolf management in Minnesota; Doug Smith, project leader for the recovery of wolves in Yellowstone; Ed Bangs with the U.

Fish and Wildlife Service in Montana; and Carter Niemeyer, the Idaho state wildlife manager who trapped and radio-collared the first confirmed breeding pair of wolves that dispersed from Canada to the Methow Valley in A public meeting is scheduled from 6: Allen will summarize the draft plan then open the meeting to hear from the public. The public is invited to review the draft plan and draft EIS online at www. Copies of the plan are on their way to local libraries in Okanogan and Chelan counties, said Luers.

This blog is dedicated to the memory of Wolf , the beloved Yellowstone Druid wolf named Limpy, who was shot and killed in March 08, on the very day ESA protections were lifted for the gray wolf, by the then Bush Administration. In Western Oregon, the goal is also four breeding pairs. The plan is divided into three parts. Rick Bass put it most eloquently, when describing the untenable conditions we force wolves to live under: The results of legal wolf hunt are presented to the public as palatable statistics. Six were collared wolves that—when alive—provided valuable research data.

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Like Wolf Warriors On Facebook. Wolf tracks, hair and scat can often be found near a wolf kill. Wolves can survive in a variety of habitats, including forests, tundra, mountains, swamps and deserts. Wolf territories usually vary in size from to square miles, but may range from as little as 18 square miles to as much as 1, square miles.

One wolf per every 10 square miles is considered ideal for wolf health. Territory size is typically based on the density of prey but is also influenced by pack size, presence of neighboring packs, and human land use. Wolves will aggressively defend their territories from other packs.

They often travel 20 to 30 miles per day, but may cover over miles in a day when prey is scarce. Wolf dens are usually located near water and dug into well-drained soil on a south-facing slope.

They can be dug under a boulder, among tree roots, or in cut banks, hollow logs or other sturdy natural structures. Wolves often enlarge existing coyote or fox dens. Wolf den entrances measure about 18 inches in diameter.

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The passageway, which may be straight, forked or hooked, is 4 to 18 feet long with a chamber measuring about 20 inches high by 50 inches wide by 40 inches deep. No bedding is added to the den. If the den has been used in past years, bones will be scattered about and well-defined trails should radiate from the den.

It is common for dens to be reused. Communication between pack members allows wolves to care for and feed of their young, defend their common territory, and cooperatively bring down prey larger than could individual wolves on their own. A great deal of the communication among wolf pack members involves body language. Specialized behaviors and postures have evolved that help reduce aggression between individual animals within the pack.

Body language helps the pack live together more agreeably. Facial expressions are often used to express emotions. Wolves may indicate dominate behavior by baring teeth and pointing erect ears forward. Subordinate behavior may be indicated by closed mouths, slit-like eyes, and ears pulled back and held close to the head. Wolves also use tail positions to communicate emotion.

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Wolves expressing threatening signs hold their tails high, almost perpendicular, while submissive wolves lower themselves before dominant pack members, tails tucked between their legs. Under good conditions a wolf can smell something a mile or more away. Scent is a very effective means of communication for wolves. Wolf packs are highly territorial. Scents are used to clearly mark the boundaries of territories, to claim and defend that territory from other packs, to mark food ownership, and to act as a sort of road map for the pack itself.

Scent is a way for a pack to make its presence known long after it has moved to another part of its territory. Urination is the most common form of scent marking for wolves. Although all the functions of howling are not known, scientists believe that wolves may howl to assemble their pack, to claim territory, to warn intruders away from a home site or kill, or to identify other wolves.

Wolves also howl in the evening and early morning, in the summer when pups are young, and during the mid-winter breeding season.

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It is a myth that wolves howl at the moon, but they do point their snouts toward the sky to howl. Projecting their call upward allows the sound to carry farther. Wolves have excellent hearing, and under certain conditions can hear a howl as far as six miles away in the forest and ten miles away on the open tundra. A wolf howl is a deep and continuous sound from about half a second to 11 seconds long. The pitch usually remains constant or varies smoothly. A howling session by a single wolf lasts an average of 35 seconds, during which the animal howls several times.

A howling session by a pack lasts an average of 85 seconds. It is initiated by a single wolf, and after its first or second howl one or more others may join in. Alpha wolves usually display a lower-pitched howl and will howl more frequently than those with a more subservient social standing. Pups practice howling as they mature, mimicking those of adult wolves. Lone wolves may not howl as much to hide their position from other residential wolf packs. Except for the high-pitched yapping of pups, wolf howls almost never include barking.

Whines are used often at the den site, primarily by the adult female. They are thought to be sounds of affection.