A motion-triggered camera captures members of the Profanity Peak Pack in northeastern Washington in June 2017.
OLYMPIA — A new law will require a statewide analysis by the Department of Fish and Wildlife of wolf recovery efforts to see if a change in conservation status is warranted.
State Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, sponsored House Bill 2097, which Gov. Jay Inslee recently signed and is effective July 28. The bill passed the House of Representatives unanimously and the Senate by a 43-5 vote.
Julia Smith, a wolf specialist with Fish and Wildlife, said the department conducts status reviews of endangered species every five years. The gray wolf review is delayed, she said, but would have been done regardless of the new law.
The most recent estimate from Fish and Wildlife showed 27 wolf…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I think the taxpayers would like a review of which ranchers are complying the ‘suggestions’ of using nonlethal methods first, before calling in the big guns to kill wolves?
I figured out why OR wants to offer hunting permits for ‘excess’ wolves – it’s cheap! They don’t have to pay 10K for a helicopter with guns like they regularly did in WA, when they can get an ordinary hunter or trapper for nothing but the price of a hunting or trapping permit. I really do hope this is challenged.
In WA the guy at the Diamond M refuses to comply, and yet has F&W at his beck and call. The taxpayers should not stand for it.
The Diamond M went from every other year or so demanding wolves be killed (on the public lands, no less!) to every year. It’s not something I look forward to reading about every year. So at least he has gotten progressively worse.