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It gained followers and fans in the wildlife community as it traveled south, crossing interstates and highways to parts of California that hadn't seen a wolf since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate, Center for Biological Diversity\"]'He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades.'[/pullquote]Researchers and wildlife protectors have expressed grief after the death of OR93. Senior Wolf Advocate Amaroq Weiss of The Center for Biological Diversity paid close attention to the wolf's movements, and for her, its journey shows that \"wolves are amazing and intrepid and inspiring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades,\" she shared through email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like much of the U.S., is wolf habitat. Pre-colonization, large predators covered much of the continent, before European colonizers hunted, trapped and killed them to near extinction. The fragmented populations that survived are now being suffocated, in many areas, by an ever-growing web of roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation estimates that 365 million animals are killed on U.S. roads every year, more than the total number of people in the country. Recovering populations of large carnivores like wolves, which are trying to repopulate areas, are at particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11897441 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg\" alt=\"A map of California that includes gray-colored areas near the Sierra Nevada, in rural northern counties and in some sparse zones north of Los Angeles, that are potentially suitable habitats for wolves\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR93 traveled to the areas near the Los Padres National Forest and the Chumash Wilderness. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young male gray wolves are known to travel far distances after leaving their packs. The wanderlust has a biological purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By traveling far from its family, a wolf is more likely to find a mate with a different genetic makeup. Inbreeding is believed to have caused a population crash of gray wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Efforts to take grizzly bears off the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies have been stymied because of legal challenges based, in part, on \"species connectivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, wildlife officials have found abnormalities in an inbreeding population of mountain lions, hemmed in by the region's busy roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state will break ground on an overpass spanning six lanes of the 101 freeway designed to help the large cats and other wildlife branch out, after a multiyear push by wildlife advocates. Similar efforts are underway around the country, and the larger effort to give wildlife safe passage just got a big boost in President Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It designates $350 million over the next five years for state, local and tribal governments to construct bridges or underpasses for wildlife. Another $400 million will go toward the removal of obstructions like dams, which stifle fish and invertebrate populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The construction of wildlife crossings will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and is a key conservation strategy to help wildlife survive impacts from climate change and development,\" said Mike Leahy, director of wildlife, hunting, and fishing policy at the National Wildlife Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='conservation']More than a million species are at risk of extinction globally, many within decades, because of human activities. World leaders are gathering next year to approve a plan for slowing the biodiversity crisis. Aggressive action is needed to slow the collapse of nature, said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want to avoid another COVID-19?\" she told NPR last year. \"We either conserve and protect nature, biodiversity, or it will make us suffer as we do now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Katrin Snow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway, possibly struck by a vehicle.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1638306175,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":699},"headData":{"title":"OR93, the Famously Far-Ranging Gray Wolf, Is Found Dead Near Los Angeles | KQED","description":"Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, has been found dead near a roadway, possibly struck by a vehicle.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11897433 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11897433","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/11/25/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles/","disqusTitle":"OR93, the Famously Far-Ranging Gray Wolf, Is Found Dead Near Los Angeles","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/348779465/nathan-rott\">Nathan Rott\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11897433/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wildlife officials say a far-ranging gray wolf, the first to tromp across Southern California in more than a hundred years, was found dead near a roadway a little more than an hour's drive north of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared to have been struck by a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The male wolf, named OR93 when it was outfitted with a GPS collar by wildlife officials in its home state of Oregon, left its pack near Mount Hood two years ago. It gained followers and fans in the wildlife community as it traveled south, crossing interstates and highways to parts of California that hadn't seen a wolf since 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate, Center for Biological Diversity","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Researchers and wildlife protectors have expressed grief after the death of OR93. Senior Wolf Advocate Amaroq Weiss of The Center for Biological Diversity paid close attention to the wolf's movements, and for her, its journey shows that \"wolves are amazing and intrepid and inspiring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was simply looking for a mate and his search took him to [a] place we did not expect wolves to get to for decades,\" she shared through email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, like much of the U.S., is wolf habitat. Pre-colonization, large predators covered much of the continent, before European colonizers hunted, trapped and killed them to near extinction. The fragmented populations that survived are now being suffocated, in many areas, by an ever-growing web of roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Transportation estimates that 365 million animals are killed on U.S. roads every year, more than the total number of people in the country. Recovering populations of large carnivores like wolves, which are trying to repopulate areas, are at particular risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897441\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 730px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11897441 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg\" alt=\"A map of California that includes gray-colored areas near the Sierra Nevada, in rural northern counties and in some sparse zones north of Los Angeles, that are potentially suitable habitats for wolves\" width=\"730\" height=\"973\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats.jpg 730w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/wolves_habitats-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR93 traveled to the areas near the Los Padres National Forest and the Chumash Wilderness. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of The Center for Biological Diversity)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Young male gray wolves are known to travel far distances after leaving their packs. The wanderlust has a biological purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By traveling far from its family, a wolf is more likely to find a mate with a different genetic makeup. Inbreeding is believed to have caused a population crash of gray wolves on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Efforts to take grizzly bears off the endangered species list in the Northern Rockies have been stymied because of legal challenges based, in part, on \"species connectivity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, wildlife officials have found abnormalities in an inbreeding population of mountain lions, hemmed in by the region's busy roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early next year, the state will break ground on an overpass spanning six lanes of the 101 freeway designed to help the large cats and other wildlife branch out, after a multiyear push by wildlife advocates. Similar efforts are underway around the country, and the larger effort to give wildlife safe passage just got a big boost in President Biden's recently passed infrastructure bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It designates $350 million over the next five years for state, local and tribal governments to construct bridges or underpasses for wildlife. Another $400 million will go toward the removal of obstructions like dams, which stifle fish and invertebrate populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The construction of wildlife crossings will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and is a key conservation strategy to help wildlife survive impacts from climate change and development,\" said Mike Leahy, director of wildlife, hunting, and fishing policy at the National Wildlife Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"conservation"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More than a million species are at risk of extinction globally, many within decades, because of human activities. World leaders are gathering next year to approve a plan for slowing the biodiversity crisis. Aggressive action is needed to slow the collapse of nature, said Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we want to avoid another COVID-19?\" she told NPR last year. \"We either conserve and protect nature, biodiversity, or it will make us suffer as we do now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Katrin Snow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11897433/or93-the-famously-far-ranging-gray-wolf-is-found-dead-near-los-angeles","authors":["byline_news_11897433"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18132","news_18538","news_21074","news_18245","news_1730","news_3187","news_2354","news_3825"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11897439","label":"news_253"},"news_10780868":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10780868","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10780868","score":null,"sort":[1449185709000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gray-wolves-may-lose-protections-once-there-are-50-in-california","title":"Gray Wolves May Lose Protections Once There Are 50 in California","publishDate":1449185709,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gray wolves could be stripped of state endangered species protections once at least 50 of the animals are roaming in California, wildlife officials said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf\" target=\"_blank\">released a draft plan\u003c/a> for managing gray wolves, which were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/04/california-to-protect-gray-wolves-as-endangered-species/\" target=\"_blank\">granted protections last year\u003c/a> but whose numbers are growing. It outlines efforts to minimize livestock loss and ways to ensure there's enough prey for wolves, other predators and hunters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California's protections, gray wolves can't be killed or hunted. U.S. law also protects wolves in most of the nation, except for Idaho, Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. But there is a pending proposal to strip federal protections from most of the Lower 48 states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7fvT3EudCAabHvLuT0hgEHqyhUtlm42p\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there are between 50 and 75 wolves in California, the state's proposal suggests considering whether wolves should be removed from a list of endangered animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves were hunted to extinction in California nearly a century ago, but a lone wolf called OR-7 crossed the northern border from Oregon in 2011, marking their return. Remote cameras in Siskiyou County earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/08/20/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century/\" target=\"_blank\">captured two adults and five pups\u003c/a>, dubbed the Shasta Pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists herald their return as an icon of California's western landscape, while ranchers fear wolf packs will kill valuable livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty doesn't sound like many wolves, but Northern California doesn't have enough wild prey to support that number of predators, said Kirk Wilbur, spokesman for the California Cattlemen's Association. He fears that wolves will remain forever under the state's protection, depriving ranchers of the ability to kill them and protecting their cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had concerns with listing them in the first place,\" Wilbur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj3pzWYOQ3s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaroq Weiss, a wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the state proposes removing protections for gray wolves just as they gain a solid foothold in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We disagree with the proposal to weaken protections before wolves have truly recovered in California,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, any discussion of removing protections at this point is a premature, said Jordan Traverso, a spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. She said it is hard to know whether wolves will flourish to that degree in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's impossible to speculate what Mother Nature would do,\" Traverso said. \"We have no idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will \u003ca href=\"http://wolfconservationplancomments.org/\" target=\"_blank\">take public comment\u003c/a> on the plan through mid-February before it is adopted.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State wildlife officials consider stripping the endangered animal's protections once it has established a target population.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449193419,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":417},"headData":{"title":"Gray Wolves May Lose Protections Once There Are 50 in California | KQED","description":"State wildlife officials consider stripping the endangered animal's protections once it has established a target population.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10780868 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10780868","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/03/gray-wolves-may-lose-protections-once-there-are-50-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Gray Wolves May Lose Protections Once There Are 50 in California","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Scott Smith\u003cbr>Associated Press\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10780868/gray-wolves-may-lose-protections-once-there-are-50-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gray wolves could be stripped of state endangered species protections once at least 50 of the animals are roaming in California, wildlife officials said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Gray-Wolf\" target=\"_blank\">released a draft plan\u003c/a> for managing gray wolves, which were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/04/california-to-protect-gray-wolves-as-endangered-species/\" target=\"_blank\">granted protections last year\u003c/a> but whose numbers are growing. It outlines efforts to minimize livestock loss and ways to ensure there's enough prey for wolves, other predators and hunters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California's protections, gray wolves can't be killed or hunted. U.S. law also protects wolves in most of the nation, except for Idaho, Montana and parts of Washington, Oregon and Utah. But there is a pending proposal to strip federal protections from most of the Lower 48 states, including California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once there are between 50 and 75 wolves in California, the state's proposal suggests considering whether wolves should be removed from a list of endangered animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves were hunted to extinction in California nearly a century ago, but a lone wolf called OR-7 crossed the northern border from Oregon in 2011, marking their return. Remote cameras in Siskiyou County earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/08/20/gray-wolf-pups-found-in-california-first-in-nearly-a-century/\" target=\"_blank\">captured two adults and five pups\u003c/a>, dubbed the Shasta Pack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists herald their return as an icon of California's western landscape, while ranchers fear wolf packs will kill valuable livestock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty doesn't sound like many wolves, but Northern California doesn't have enough wild prey to support that number of predators, said Kirk Wilbur, spokesman for the California Cattlemen's Association. He fears that wolves will remain forever under the state's protection, depriving ranchers of the ability to kill them and protecting their cattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had concerns with listing them in the first place,\" Wilbur said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Nj3pzWYOQ3s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Nj3pzWYOQ3s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Amaroq Weiss, a wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the state proposes removing protections for gray wolves just as they gain a solid foothold in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We disagree with the proposal to weaken protections before wolves have truly recovered in California,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, any discussion of removing protections at this point is a premature, said Jordan Traverso, a spokeswoman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. She said it is hard to know whether wolves will flourish to that degree in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's impossible to speculate what Mother Nature would do,\" Traverso said. \"We have no idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will \u003ca href=\"http://wolfconservationplancomments.org/\" target=\"_blank\">take public comment\u003c/a> on the plan through mid-February before it is adopted.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10780868/gray-wolves-may-lose-protections-once-there-are-50-in-california","authors":["byline_news_10780868"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_18534","news_5139","news_2356","news_4776","news_17286","news_1421","news_2354"],"featImg":"news_10780879","label":"news_72"},"news_88867":{"type":"posts","id":"news_88867","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"88867","score":null,"sort":[1360707678000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"coyote-killing-contest-raises-questions-about-hunting-on-public-land","title":"Coyote Killing Contest Raises Questions About Hunting on Public Land","publishDate":1360707678,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A coyote killing contest that took place in Modoc County Saturday and Sunday has raised questions about hunting on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87793\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87793\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wildlife protection groups tried to stop the hunt, an annual event partly organized by the Adin Supply Co., partly on the grounds that it was likely to violate land use restrictions in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opponents also argued that it jeopardized California's only known wild wolf, who might resemble a coyote to an untrained hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"0R7,\" as biologists call the wolf, survived the fusillade directed at the area's coyotes. A transmitter he wears suggests that he is currently roaming Plumas County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adin Supply Co. owner Steve Gagnon, pronounced the hunt a success. \"It went great,\" he told me. \"There was an incredible amount of support, more than I could have imagined.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 240 people came to town for the hunt he said, nearly doubling Adin's population of 279 for the weekend. \"It went without a hitch,\" he said. \"It was very smooth and very legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he didn't know how many coyotes were killed or who won the contest, referring questions to Buck Parks, president of the Pit River Rod and Gun Club. Parks did not return my calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legality of the hunt came into question in the weeks leading up to it. Opponents garnered letters from government land managers, including the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. national forests, saying that the organizers had not applied for permits to hunt on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a BLM-sponsored nor permitted event on public land this year, and BLM has not issued a special recreation permit for the hunt in previous years,\" said Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Mary Lou West in an email. \"In general, individuals are allowed to hunt on public lands consistent with California Department of Fish and Wildlife regulations, but not as part of an organized event unless permitted through a special recreation permit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there is no season for coyote hunting in California, or limit in the number of coyotes an individual can kill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gagnon interpreted the law to mean that individual participants could kill coyotes on public land as part of the hunt if the actual organization of the hunt didn't take place on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted rules for the hunt state that \"no geographic boundaries have been made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That doesn't make sense,\" Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our concern, as manifested in this particular hunt, is that contest sponsors far too frequently don't obtain the necessary permits to hunt on public lands and don't inform participants about lands that are off limits to predator hunts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far I haven't been able to reach West about the question of when a hunt is \"organized,\" and therefore requires a permit, and when it is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after I published this post, I heard back from the Bureau of Land Management. Doran Sanchez, deputy director of external affairs for California, told me the hunt took place entirely on private land. \"This was a private event by private sponsors on private land,\" he said. \"The organizers were provided maps of adjacent public lands and they were informed that their event could not go on public lands. And that's what happened. The participants remained on private lands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked what would happen if, as Steve Gagnon suggested, an individual involved in the contest crossed onto BLM land to shoot a coyote. He said he'd call me back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead I got a call from Jeff Fontana, a BLM public affairs officer, who said any organized event where money is collected on BLM lands would require a permit from the agency -- not just a hunt, but a automobile race, a footrace or any other event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, he said, BLM does not require any special permit for hunters who are not part of an organized group. The hunters just have to comply with state hunting laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I again posed the question about an individual participant in the coyote killing contest entering public land. \"If someone wandered onto public lands I don't know,\" he said. \"That would require a little more legal knowledge than I have.\" \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1360776896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":739},"headData":{"title":"Coyote Killing Contest Raises Questions About Hunting on Public Land | KQED","description":"A coyote killing contest that took place in Modoc County Saturday and Sunday has raised questions about hunting on public lands. Wildlife protection groups tried to stop the hunt, an annual event partly organized by the Adin Supply Co., partly on the grounds that it was likely to violate land use restrictions in the area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"88867 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=88867","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/coyote-killing-contest-raises-questions-about-hunting-on-public-land/","disqusTitle":"Coyote Killing Contest Raises Questions About Hunting on Public Land","path":"/news/88867/coyote-killing-contest-raises-questions-about-hunting-on-public-land","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A coyote killing contest that took place in Modoc County Saturday and Sunday has raised questions about hunting on public lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87793\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87793\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wildlife protection groups tried to stop the hunt, an annual event partly organized by the Adin Supply Co., partly on the grounds that it was likely to violate land use restrictions in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opponents also argued that it jeopardized California's only known wild wolf, who might resemble a coyote to an untrained hunter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"0R7,\" as biologists call the wolf, survived the fusillade directed at the area's coyotes. A transmitter he wears suggests that he is currently roaming Plumas County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adin Supply Co. owner Steve Gagnon, pronounced the hunt a success. \"It went great,\" he told me. \"There was an incredible amount of support, more than I could have imagined.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 240 people came to town for the hunt he said, nearly doubling Adin's population of 279 for the weekend. \"It went without a hitch,\" he said. \"It was very smooth and very legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he didn't know how many coyotes were killed or who won the contest, referring questions to Buck Parks, president of the Pit River Rod and Gun Club. Parks did not return my calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legality of the hunt came into question in the weeks leading up to it. Opponents garnered letters from government land managers, including the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. national forests, saying that the organizers had not applied for permits to hunt on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not a BLM-sponsored nor permitted event on public land this year, and BLM has not issued a special recreation permit for the hunt in previous years,\" said Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Mary Lou West in an email. \"In general, individuals are allowed to hunt on public lands consistent with California Department of Fish and Wildlife regulations, but not as part of an organized event unless permitted through a special recreation permit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, there is no season for coyote hunting in California, or limit in the number of coyotes an individual can kill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gagnon interpreted the law to mean that individual participants could kill coyotes on public land as part of the hunt if the actual organization of the hunt didn't take place on public land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Posted rules for the hunt state that \"no geographic boundaries have been made.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That doesn't make sense,\" Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our concern, as manifested in this particular hunt, is that contest sponsors far too frequently don't obtain the necessary permits to hunt on public lands and don't inform participants about lands that are off limits to predator hunts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far I haven't been able to reach West about the question of when a hunt is \"organized,\" and therefore requires a permit, and when it is not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after I published this post, I heard back from the Bureau of Land Management. Doran Sanchez, deputy director of external affairs for California, told me the hunt took place entirely on private land. \"This was a private event by private sponsors on private land,\" he said. \"The organizers were provided maps of adjacent public lands and they were informed that their event could not go on public lands. And that's what happened. The participants remained on private lands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked what would happen if, as Steve Gagnon suggested, an individual involved in the contest crossed onto BLM land to shoot a coyote. He said he'd call me back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead I got a call from Jeff Fontana, a BLM public affairs officer, who said any organized event where money is collected on BLM lands would require a permit from the agency -- not just a hunt, but a automobile race, a footrace or any other event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, he said, BLM does not require any special permit for hunters who are not part of an organized group. The hunters just have to comply with state hunting laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I again posed the question about an individual participant in the coyote killing contest entering public land. \"If someone wandered onto public lands I don't know,\" he said. \"That would require a little more legal knowledge than I have.\" \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/88867/coyote-killing-contest-raises-questions-about-hunting-on-public-land","authors":["1367"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_3885","news_2356","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_88449":{"type":"posts","id":"news_88449","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"88449","score":null,"sort":[1360189071000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"calif-commission-wont-stop-coyote-killing-contest","title":"Calif. Agency Won't Stop Coyote Killing Contest","publishDate":1360189071,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state game commission on Wednesday declined to intervene in a controversial coyote hunting contest, although members did ask for a legal opinion on whether the board has authority to regulate contests in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/\">Why the coyote killing contest raises concerns for California's loan wolf\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hunters are set to fan across Modoc County on Saturday and Sunday to see who can kill the most coyotes in a contest sponsored by a gun club. The winner will get a silver belt buckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87793\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87793\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif.(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Animal welfare advocates argued before the Fish and Game Commission that the hunt is inhumane, and wanton slaughter is contrary to scientific wildlife management practices that show the predators play an important vermin-control role in the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ethically indefensible and suggests wildlife has no value other than targets in an outdoor shooting gallery,\" said Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham said it's legal in California for hunters to kill wildlife that causes crop or livestock damage.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board took no action because the hunt was not on the agenda. However, newly elected commission President Michael Sutton asked staff to clarify the board's authority to regulate the contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said after the meeting that it's an open question whether coyotes to be targeted along the California border with Oregon have caused damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a question the department should be looking at. How often is damage demonstrated?\" Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter previously sent to the agency said 20 organizations want to protect a wolf known as OR7, which became the first in the state in nearly a century when it wandered across Oregon and into California a year ago. They fear other wolves could be in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the coyote hunt fear that participants won't be able to readily tell the difference between a coyote and a wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OR7 is larger than a coyote, but because it mingles with coyotes, animal advocates wrote letters and collected petition signatures asking the state to call off the coyote hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gray wolf is a federally protected species in California, and wildlife authorities are in the process of determining whether state protections should be offered as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonham said wildlife officials will be at the hunt to educate participants about the physical differences between a wolf and a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to hunt predators is important to ranchers, said Margo Parks of the California Cattlemen's Association. She said coyotes are responsible for $4 million in damages annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OR7 is a poorly disguised excuse to further chip away at hunting rights,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1360211330,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":460},"headData":{"title":"Calif. Agency Won't Stop Coyote Killing Contest | KQED","description":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state game commission on Wednesday declined to intervene in a controversial coyote hunting contest, although members did ask for a legal opinion on whether the board has authority to regulate contests in the future. Why the coyote killing contest raises concerns for California's loan wolf Hunters are set to fan","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"88449 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=88449","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/06/calif-commission-wont-stop-coyote-killing-contest/","disqusTitle":"Calif. Agency Won't Stop Coyote Killing Contest","path":"/news/88449/calif-commission-wont-stop-coyote-killing-contest","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The state game commission on Wednesday declined to intervene in a controversial coyote hunting contest, although members did ask for a legal opinion on whether the board has authority to regulate contests in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/\">Why the coyote killing contest raises concerns for California's loan wolf\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hunters are set to fan across Modoc County on Saturday and Sunday to see who can kill the most coyotes in a contest sponsored by a gun club. The winner will get a silver belt buckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87793\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87793\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87793\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif.(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Animal welfare advocates argued before the Fish and Game Commission that the hunt is inhumane, and wanton slaughter is contrary to scientific wildlife management practices that show the predators play an important vermin-control role in the ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's ethically indefensible and suggests wildlife has no value other than targets in an outdoor shooting gallery,\" said Camilla Fox, executive director of Project Coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham said it's legal in California for hunters to kill wildlife that causes crop or livestock damage.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board took no action because the hunt was not on the agenda. However, newly elected commission President Michael Sutton asked staff to clarify the board's authority to regulate the contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said after the meeting that it's an open question whether coyotes to be targeted along the California border with Oregon have caused damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a question the department should be looking at. How often is damage demonstrated?\" Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter previously sent to the agency said 20 organizations want to protect a wolf known as OR7, which became the first in the state in nearly a century when it wandered across Oregon and into California a year ago. They fear other wolves could be in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the coyote hunt fear that participants won't be able to readily tell the difference between a coyote and a wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OR7 is larger than a coyote, but because it mingles with coyotes, animal advocates wrote letters and collected petition signatures asking the state to call off the coyote hunt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gray wolf is a federally protected species in California, and wildlife authorities are in the process of determining whether state protections should be offered as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonham said wildlife officials will be at the hunt to educate participants about the physical differences between a wolf and a coyote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability to hunt predators is important to ranchers, said Margo Parks of the California Cattlemen's Association. She said coyotes are responsible for $4 million in damages annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"OR7 is a poorly disguised excuse to further chip away at hunting rights,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/88449/calif-commission-wont-stop-coyote-killing-contest","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_2356","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_87512":{"type":"posts","id":"news_87512","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"87512","score":null,"sort":[1359679686000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf","title":"Modoc Coyote Hunt Raises Concerns About California's Lone Wolf","publishDate":1359679686,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California only has one known wolf, and now wildlife activists are worried that he will die in a storm of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72787\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/09/calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered/wolf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72787\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72787\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>T\u003ca href=\"http://www.adinsupply.com/rod_n_gun.htm\">he Pit River Rod and Gun Club\u003c/a> is holding \u003ca href=\"http://www.adinsupply.com/coyote%20drive.htm\">a coyote hunting contest\u003c/a> in Modoc County where the wolf -- whom biologists have dubbed OR7 -- was spotted last year. In the process of killing coyotes, the activists fear, hunters will accidentally kill the gray wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of participants will compete to see who can kill the most coyotes in the event from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can legally hunt a wolf in California, but coyotes are fair game. In fact there is no season and no limit on the number a hunter can kill in a day. And the wildlife protection folks have a problem with that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87795\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87795 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images1-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At \u003ca href=\"www.ProjectCoyote.org\">Project Coyote\u003c/a> we believe that killing coyotes or any animal as part of a contest is ethically indefensible,\" said Camilla Fox, the organization's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gagnon of the Adin Supply Company, a co-sponsor of Coyote Drive 7, responded that it's part of a way of life. \"What we have here is part of our heritage,\" he said. \"It's been going on for years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many ranchers in the area support the hunt because coyotes kill livestock, he said. \"We just had a cow die and a pack of coyotes ate the calf as it came out, and killed the cow as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gagnon said he wasn't sure what is the record number of coyotes an individual hunter has killed in the contest, but he thought it was fewer than 10.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activists are hoping that the presence of OR7 in the area will lead government agencies to prohibit the hunt, which has taken place annually for the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving an Oregon pack in December 2011, the wolf wandered into California, where no wolf had been seen in 90 years. Wolves once ranged throughout the United States, but were driven into extinction in many states. Wildlife agencies have been gradually reintroducing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible that some other wolf has trekked into California from Oregon without detection, and could be prowling the forest outside Adin, Fox pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Land Management has warned organizers that the hunt cannot take place on public lands, but Gagnon said hunters were already planning to focus on ranches anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>This video by Pronghorn Productions shows a coyote and a wolf side-by-side.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/aYuZgEi_VLs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Karen Kovacs, Northern Region wildlife program manager for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said OR7, who wears a collar with an radio transmitter, is currently \u003ca href=\"http://californiagraywolf.wordpress.com/\">in Northeastern Tehama County. \u003c/a>That would put him less than 100 miles from Adin as the crow flies, and OR7 moves about 15 miles per day in that measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year during the hunt, the wolf was in Modoc County, Kovacs said, and even then the department did not forbid the coyote hunt. Instead, her department worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Fish and Game to warn coyote hunters about the wolf. \"We all participated in providing a greater presence on the landscape to physically talk to people for the duration of this hunt,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife protection groups say they've stopped other hunts, however.\u003ca href=\"http://www.santafenewmexican.com/localnews/111612Briefsforweb#.UQr82mf4IkQ\"> In New Mexico\u003c/a>, state officials warned hunters not to shoot coyote on state lands. And in North Carolina a court order put a\u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/article/coyote-hunting-shutdown-north-carolina-after-endangered-wolves-shot-dead\"> stop to coyote hunting\u003c/a> at least temporarily after seven red wolves were shot there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A wolf and a coyote to a 15-year-old with a gun are going to look exactly the same,\" said Oliver Starr, the owner of a pet wolf in Woodacre, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argued that there are better methods for protecting wildlife than hunting coyotes. When coyotes are killed, other coyotes have larger litters and juveniles are more likely to attack livestock, said Starr, whose only family was once in the cattle business. He suggested that ranchers could use deterrents such as noise makers and guard dogs instead of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coyotes and foxes kill rats and mice,\" he said. He pointed out that the rodents can spread hantavirus and suggested hunting their predators could be responsible for an outbreak of the disease in Yosemite last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kovacs agreed that coyotes occupy an important niche in the natural food chain. But she said hunting doesn't pose as much of a threat to them as development. \"Human activities like damming up reservoirs and all of that probably has a much bigger impact than the removal of coyotes form a small area.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1359829094,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":805},"headData":{"title":"Modoc Coyote Hunt Raises Concerns About California's Lone Wolf","description":"The Pit River Rod and Gun Club is holding a coyote hunting contest in Modoc County where the wolf -- whom biologists have dubbed OR7 -- was spotted last year. In the process of killing coyotes, the activists fear, hunters will accidentally kill the gray wolf.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"87512 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=87512","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/","disqusTitle":"Modoc Coyote Hunt Raises Concerns About California's Lone Wolf","path":"/news/87512/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California only has one known wolf, and now wildlife activists are worried that he will die in a storm of bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72787\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/09/calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered/wolf/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72787\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-72787\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>T\u003ca href=\"http://www.adinsupply.com/rod_n_gun.htm\">he Pit River Rod and Gun Club\u003c/a> is holding \u003ca href=\"http://www.adinsupply.com/coyote%20drive.htm\">a coyote hunting contest\u003c/a> in Modoc County where the wolf -- whom biologists have dubbed OR7 -- was spotted last year. In the process of killing coyotes, the activists fear, hunters will accidentally kill the gray wolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of participants will compete to see who can kill the most coyotes in the event from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one can legally hunt a wolf in California, but coyotes are fair game. In fact there is no season and no limit on the number a hunter can kill in a day. And the wildlife protection folks have a problem with that as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/31/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf/rain-brings-temporary-relief-at-california-wildfires-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87795\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-87795 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/coyote-by-David-McNew-Getty-Images1-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Brings Temporary Relief At California Wildfires\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coyote walks through a burned forest east of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. (David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At \u003ca href=\"www.ProjectCoyote.org\">Project Coyote\u003c/a> we believe that killing coyotes or any animal as part of a contest is ethically indefensible,\" said Camilla Fox, the organization's executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Gagnon of the Adin Supply Company, a co-sponsor of Coyote Drive 7, responded that it's part of a way of life. \"What we have here is part of our heritage,\" he said. \"It's been going on for years and years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many ranchers in the area support the hunt because coyotes kill livestock, he said. \"We just had a cow die and a pack of coyotes ate the calf as it came out, and killed the cow as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gagnon said he wasn't sure what is the record number of coyotes an individual hunter has killed in the contest, but he thought it was fewer than 10.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activists are hoping that the presence of OR7 in the area will lead government agencies to prohibit the hunt, which has taken place annually for the last seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving an Oregon pack in December 2011, the wolf wandered into California, where no wolf had been seen in 90 years. Wolves once ranged throughout the United States, but were driven into extinction in many states. Wildlife agencies have been gradually reintroducing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible that some other wolf has trekked into California from Oregon without detection, and could be prowling the forest outside Adin, Fox pointed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bureau of Land Management has warned organizers that the hunt cannot take place on public lands, but Gagnon said hunters were already planning to focus on ranches anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>This video by Pronghorn Productions shows a coyote and a wolf side-by-side.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/aYuZgEi_VLs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Karen Kovacs, Northern Region wildlife program manager for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said OR7, who wears a collar with an radio transmitter, is currently \u003ca href=\"http://californiagraywolf.wordpress.com/\">in Northeastern Tehama County. \u003c/a>That would put him less than 100 miles from Adin as the crow flies, and OR7 moves about 15 miles per day in that measurement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year during the hunt, the wolf was in Modoc County, Kovacs said, and even then the department did not forbid the coyote hunt. Instead, her department worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Fish and Game to warn coyote hunters about the wolf. \"We all participated in providing a greater presence on the landscape to physically talk to people for the duration of this hunt,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife protection groups say they've stopped other hunts, however.\u003ca href=\"http://www.santafenewmexican.com/localnews/111612Briefsforweb#.UQr82mf4IkQ\"> In New Mexico\u003c/a>, state officials warned hunters not to shoot coyote on state lands. And in North Carolina a court order put a\u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/article/coyote-hunting-shutdown-north-carolina-after-endangered-wolves-shot-dead\"> stop to coyote hunting\u003c/a> at least temporarily after seven red wolves were shot there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A wolf and a coyote to a 15-year-old with a gun are going to look exactly the same,\" said Oliver Starr, the owner of a pet wolf in Woodacre, Calif.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argued that there are better methods for protecting wildlife than hunting coyotes. When coyotes are killed, other coyotes have larger litters and juveniles are more likely to attack livestock, said Starr, whose only family was once in the cattle business. He suggested that ranchers could use deterrents such as noise makers and guard dogs instead of guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coyotes and foxes kill rats and mice,\" he said. He pointed out that the rodents can spread hantavirus and suggested hunting their predators could be responsible for an outbreak of the disease in Yosemite last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kovacs agreed that coyotes occupy an important niche in the natural food chain. But she said hunting doesn't pose as much of a threat to them as development. \"Human activities like damming up reservoirs and all of that probably has a much bigger impact than the removal of coyotes form a small area.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/87512/modoc-coyote-hunt-raises-concerns-about-lone-wolf","authors":["1367"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2342","news_2356","news_2354","news_3825"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_72783":{"type":"posts","id":"news_72783","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"72783","score":null,"sort":[1344534285000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered","title":"Calif. Recommends Listing Gray Wolf as Endangered","publishDate":1344534285,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>by Tracie Cone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- State scientists say the lone wolf roaming far Northern California should be considered a candidate for listing under the state endangered species act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72787\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wolf\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72787\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A report from the Department of Fish and Game released Wednesday called the presence of the gray wolf that crossed the border from Oregon last December an ``historic and a scientific certainty.'' The report says that other wolves could migrate to form breeding populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Whether one is for or against listing wolves as threatened or endangered ... one must acknowledge the fact that the arrival of wolf OR7 in our state was an historic event,'' said Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was presented Wednesday to members of the California Fish and Game Commission, which will decide in October whether to accept the recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency acted on a petition for listing filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups. Some groups at the meeting urged commission members to consider that listing the wolf would help protect it from poaching, which has been a problem in other Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Illegal poaching has caused 24 percent of all wolf deaths,'' Pamela Flick of Defenders of Wildlife told commissioners. ``State listing may not prevent all killings, but it may prevent some.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State wildlife biologists believe that the lone wolf who crossed into Northern California from Oregon last December could eventually be joined by others. Favorable terrain and the presence of mule deer and other food sources could sustain a pack, biologists said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that a pack could establish itself concerns Modoc County cattle rancher Billy Flournoy. He isn't worried about this wolf, which he has heard is unhealthy and living off of dead animals. He just hopes the state never tries to reintroduce wolves, which were killed off in California in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``I don't think this one is hurting anything. I think he's lost and doesn't know what he's doing,'' Flournoy said. ``But I really think Fish and Game has a heck of a lot more to do than worry about one wolf.'' \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1344534285,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":370},"headData":{"title":"Calif. Recommends Listing Gray Wolf as Endangered | KQED","description":"by Tracie Cone FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- State scientists say the lone wolf roaming far Northern California should be considered a candidate for listing under the state endangered species act. A report from the Department of Fish and Game released Wednesday called the presence of the gray wolf that crossed the border from Oregon last","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"72783 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=72783","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/09/calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered/","disqusTitle":"Calif. Recommends Listing Gray Wolf as Endangered","path":"/news/72783/calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Tracie Cone\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- State scientists say the lone wolf roaming far Northern California should be considered a candidate for listing under the state endangered species act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72787\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/wolf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wolf\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72787\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A report from the Department of Fish and Game released Wednesday called the presence of the gray wolf that crossed the border from Oregon last December an ``historic and a scientific certainty.'' The report says that other wolves could migrate to form breeding populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Whether one is for or against listing wolves as threatened or endangered ... one must acknowledge the fact that the arrival of wolf OR7 in our state was an historic event,'' said Jordan Traverso, deputy director of communications for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was presented Wednesday to members of the California Fish and Game Commission, which will decide in October whether to accept the recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency acted on a petition for listing filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups. Some groups at the meeting urged commission members to consider that listing the wolf would help protect it from poaching, which has been a problem in other Western states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``Illegal poaching has caused 24 percent of all wolf deaths,'' Pamela Flick of Defenders of Wildlife told commissioners. ``State listing may not prevent all killings, but it may prevent some.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State wildlife biologists believe that the lone wolf who crossed into Northern California from Oregon last December could eventually be joined by others. Favorable terrain and the presence of mule deer and other food sources could sustain a pack, biologists said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that a pack could establish itself concerns Modoc County cattle rancher Billy Flournoy. He isn't worried about this wolf, which he has heard is unhealthy and living off of dead animals. He just hopes the state never tries to reintroduce wolves, which were killed off in California in the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>``I don't think this one is hurting anything. I think he's lost and doesn't know what he's doing,'' Flournoy said. ``But I really think Fish and Game has a heck of a lot more to do than worry about one wolf.'' \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/72783/calif-recommends-listing-gray-wolf-as-endangered","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_2931","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_58501":{"type":"posts","id":"news_58501","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"58501","score":null,"sort":[1331068921000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"promo-video-of-ranch-where-dan-richards-killed-cougar-shows-split-over-wild-animals","title":"Promo Video of Ranch Where Dan Richards Killed Cougar Shows Split in Attitude Over Wild Animals","publishDate":1331068921,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Paul Rogers had a good \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_20095676\">\u003cstrong>piece in the Mercury News\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> over the weekend about the \"cultural shift\" in California as evidenced by the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/29/read-calif-fish-and-game-presidents-letter-to-assemblyman-on-dead-mountain-lion-photo/\">uproar over a Fish and Game official's killing of a mountain lion in Idaho\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers writes that the shift is a \"profound change involving urban and rural, old and young, red and blue -- in which the traditional political power of hunters and fishermen is in steady decline while environmentalists and animal rights groups have grown in influence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers talked to Bill Gaines, president of the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance, a hunting advocacy group in Sacramento. \"Today 80 percent of Californians live in urban areas,\" said Gaines. \"When I grew up north of Stockton in the 1960s and 70s, I was literally born with a BB gun in one hand and a fishing pole in another. All my friends were like that. Today, through no fault of their own, people are not raised in that lifestyle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're looking for one illustration of the attitudinal difference between hunters and those made squeamish by their activities, take a look at this \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l-U4v4Mra1w#t=02m50s\">promotional video\u003c/a> from the Flying B Ranch, where Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards' killing of a cougar has landed him in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/29/BAU11NE3J0.DTL&ao=all\">hot water with Democratic legislators\u003c/a> and animal advocates. The Chronicle's Politics Blog \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/03/01/see-video-from-idaho-ranch-where-ca-official-shot-cougar/\">posted the video\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal lovers will most likely not appreciate the images of a treed mountain lion being shot and falling to the ground, where its teeth are displayed for the camera -- all to the sounds of thrashing guitar music. Nor would they enjoy the next segment, in which three hunters excitedly discuss, in subtitles, their impending kill of a black bear, culminating with a \"Shoot it now! Shoot it now!\" Cut to the shot bear tumbling over, cut to vigorous handshakes among the men, and cut to the obligatory trophy photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/l-U4v4Mra1w#t=02m50s\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThis complete lack of sentimentality concerning some wild animals can also be seen in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/05/in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome/\">Lauren Sommer's post about the lone wolf\u003c/a> (called OR7) that has been hanging around the California-Oregon border, delighting some wildlife watchers but not necessarily all interested parties...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For several weeks...wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Similarly, that post has been receiving a lot of comments like these (which seem to be coming from mostly out of state):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Haze that mutt back to Idaho....we'll solve your wondering wolf problem. If you people let this thing back into your state, you're nuts.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nOR7 is a cattle killing machine...His litter mate OR9 was recently killed in Idaho near a feed lot. These wolves have a taste for cattle...I cannot understand why people are celebrating this wolf. We have LOTS of evidence of what this guy is capable of\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nMy suggestion to those of you in the area this wolf is roaming, is to do whatever possible to stop the non native Yukon wolf from ever infecting your state. California hasn't the wildlife buffer the other states had, and humans will bare the brunt of the impacts.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nThere was a reason why wolves where killed 80 years ago. When families had to live off ONE milk cow, one or two cattle for beef. Losing your livestock to wolves means starving. Who would you have chosen 80 years ago? Your food, or glorify the wolf...Talk to people who are affected by wolves instead of subscribing blindly to Non-Profit newsletters with a link to your Credit Card.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\n...if you hurt the FAKE ENDANGERED YUKON wolves you are going to jail cause we all know in todays American a worthless disease spreading predator is more important then working Americans\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Is this an antipathy borne merely of economic interest? Or is it something else? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've ever seen Werner Herzog's documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grizzly+man\">\u003cem>Grizzly Man\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, chronicling the adventures of a guy who traveled to Alaska to interact closely with bears, only to be killed by one of them, you might assess the protagonist's attitude as the most extreme kind of anthropomorphic folly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ed Bangs, the recently retired wolf recovery coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, says that kind of projection of human attributes onto animals cuts the other way too:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality,\" he told Lauren Sommer. \"I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, Susan Moore of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told Sommeer that if anyone kills the wolf, it's \"a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1331069755,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":899},"headData":{"title":"Promo Video of Ranch Where Dan Richards Killed Cougar Shows Split in Attitude Over Wild Animals | KQED","description":"Paul Rogers had a good piece in the Mercury News over the weekend about the "cultural shift" in California as evidenced by the uproar over a Fish and Game official's killing of a mountain lion in Idaho. Rogers writes that the shift is a "profound change involving urban and rural, old and young, red and","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"58501 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=58501","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/06/promo-video-of-ranch-where-dan-richards-killed-cougar-shows-split-over-wild-animals/","disqusTitle":"Promo Video of Ranch Where Dan Richards Killed Cougar Shows Split in Attitude Over Wild Animals","path":"/news/58501/promo-video-of-ranch-where-dan-richards-killed-cougar-shows-split-over-wild-animals","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Paul Rogers had a good \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_20095676\">\u003cstrong>piece in the Mercury News\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> over the weekend about the \"cultural shift\" in California as evidenced by the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/29/read-calif-fish-and-game-presidents-letter-to-assemblyman-on-dead-mountain-lion-photo/\">uproar over a Fish and Game official's killing of a mountain lion in Idaho\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers writes that the shift is a \"profound change involving urban and rural, old and young, red and blue -- in which the traditional political power of hunters and fishermen is in steady decline while environmentalists and animal rights groups have grown in influence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers talked to Bill Gaines, president of the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance, a hunting advocacy group in Sacramento. \"Today 80 percent of Californians live in urban areas,\" said Gaines. \"When I grew up north of Stockton in the 1960s and 70s, I was literally born with a BB gun in one hand and a fishing pole in another. All my friends were like that. Today, through no fault of their own, people are not raised in that lifestyle.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're looking for one illustration of the attitudinal difference between hunters and those made squeamish by their activities, take a look at this \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l-U4v4Mra1w#t=02m50s\">promotional video\u003c/a> from the Flying B Ranch, where Fish and Game Commission President Dan Richards' killing of a cougar has landed him in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/29/BAU11NE3J0.DTL&ao=all\">hot water with Democratic legislators\u003c/a> and animal advocates. The Chronicle's Politics Blog \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/03/01/see-video-from-idaho-ranch-where-ca-official-shot-cougar/\">posted the video\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Animal lovers will most likely not appreciate the images of a treed mountain lion being shot and falling to the ground, where its teeth are displayed for the camera -- all to the sounds of thrashing guitar music. Nor would they enjoy the next segment, in which three hunters excitedly discuss, in subtitles, their impending kill of a black bear, culminating with a \"Shoot it now! Shoot it now!\" Cut to the shot bear tumbling over, cut to vigorous handshakes among the men, and cut to the obligatory trophy photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/l-U4v4Mra1w#t=02m50s\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThis complete lack of sentimentality concerning some wild animals can also be seen in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/05/in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome/\">Lauren Sommer's post about the lone wolf\u003c/a> (called OR7) that has been hanging around the California-Oregon border, delighting some wildlife watchers but not necessarily all interested parties...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For several weeks...wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Similarly, that post has been receiving a lot of comments like these (which seem to be coming from mostly out of state):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Haze that mutt back to Idaho....we'll solve your wondering wolf problem. If you people let this thing back into your state, you're nuts.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nOR7 is a cattle killing machine...His litter mate OR9 was recently killed in Idaho near a feed lot. These wolves have a taste for cattle...I cannot understand why people are celebrating this wolf. We have LOTS of evidence of what this guy is capable of\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nMy suggestion to those of you in the area this wolf is roaming, is to do whatever possible to stop the non native Yukon wolf from ever infecting your state. California hasn't the wildlife buffer the other states had, and humans will bare the brunt of the impacts.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\nThere was a reason why wolves where killed 80 years ago. When families had to live off ONE milk cow, one or two cattle for beef. Losing your livestock to wolves means starving. Who would you have chosen 80 years ago? Your food, or glorify the wolf...Talk to people who are affected by wolves instead of subscribing blindly to Non-Profit newsletters with a link to your Credit Card.\u003cbr>\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003cbr>\n...if you hurt the FAKE ENDANGERED YUKON wolves you are going to jail cause we all know in todays American a worthless disease spreading predator is more important then working Americans\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Is this an antipathy borne merely of economic interest? Or is it something else? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you've ever seen Werner Herzog's documentary \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=grizzly+man\">\u003cem>Grizzly Man\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, chronicling the adventures of a guy who traveled to Alaska to interact closely with bears, only to be killed by one of them, you might assess the protagonist's attitude as the most extreme kind of anthropomorphic folly. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ed Bangs, the recently retired wolf recovery coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, says that kind of projection of human attributes onto animals cuts the other way too:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality,\" he told Lauren Sommer. \"I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the way, Susan Moore of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told Sommeer that if anyone kills the wolf, it's \"a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/58501/promo-video-of-ranch-where-dan-richards-killed-cougar-shows-split-over-wild-animals","authors":["80"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2341","news_1838","news_2356","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_58435":{"type":"posts","id":"news_58435","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"58435","score":null,"sort":[1331056042000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california","title":"Interview: Retired Federal Wolf-Recovery Coordinator on OR7 and the Great Wolf Debate","publishDate":1331056042,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/WolfOFG.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/WolfOFG-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WolfOFG\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-58589\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Image: Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a two-month jaunt in Northern California, the lone wolf known as OR7 is now hanging out near the state border with Oregon. The two-year-old male wolf, California’s first in almost 90 years, has stirred both fascination and concern. OR7 has also prompted state officials to consider how to manage a growing wolf population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other Western states, the expansion of wolves has brought intense public debate, not to mention years of lawsuits. Ranchers and hunters believe the wolves kill too many livestock and elk. Environmental groups say ecosystems are healthier with a top predator like wolves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see if California could avoid this knock-down-drag-out fight, I spoke to \u003ca href=\"http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/04/27/1624742/ed-bangs-was-face-of-wolf-recovery.html\">\u003cstrong>Ed Bangs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, the recently retired wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He’s been on the frontlines of the wolf debate for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wolves have made an astounding recovery in the West, which is why a wolf came into California, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are one of the most adaptable species on Earth. They’re a very cool animal. They can stand just about anything except for human persecution. Our society decided that wolves didn’t have a place in the lower 48 and we got rid of them all. By 1930, they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the environmental movement in the 60s, Canada and Alaska started wolf recovery. Wolf populations in Canada started to expand and as they did, we started to see a few show up in northern Montana. In 1986, the first den was discovered. Since then, natural recovery has pretty much filled up northern Montana and Idaho. And we reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996 to accelerate wolf recovery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I retired, there were over 1,700 wolves in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and parts of Washington and Oregon. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would a pack get established in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wolves always leave their pack as lone animals. Males and females disperse at equal rates and equal distances. A pack is all family members, so it’s like looking for a date at your dinner table. If you want to get married, you leave town. They head out and avoid other packs. They scent-mark until they find someone of the opposite sex. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peak of breeding season is Valentine’s Day. That’s what starts a pack – these lone males and females. The lone male in California has probably missed his chance this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve had dispersing wolves going into Colorado for 10 years now. They are no closer to a pack than they were 10 years ago. When you have a loner, it’s biologically meaningless. You need a pair to breed. But what it does do is fire up the public. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Right, which is what’s happened in other states. Is there any way that California can avoid the battles and lawsuits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t think so. It’s nice to imagine that. You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept of wolves immediately polarizes people. You’re calling me to talk about wolves, not red-backed voles. And there’s a reason for that: because people are fascinated by wolves. Anytime you mix wolves and people, the reactions are very predictable. California is going to go through that very thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That doesn’t sound too promising...\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a bad thing. It forces a fair, open \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/05/in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome/\">debate\u003c/a>. Imagine if it was the way it was before, when no one cared at all about natural resources or wildlife. Apathy is a lot worse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think California Fish and Game is going about it in the right way. They’re transparent and open. They’ve had public contact. I think it’s a positive sign. I’m a firm believer that better information gives you the chance to make better decisions. There’ll be rough spots in the road, but getting out in front of it is a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some ranchers and environmentalists are working on methods to coexist with wolves…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no silver bullet, pardon the pun. To the livestock industry, wolf losses are so small, you can’t even measure them. If it’s your calf being killed, it’s a very big deal. Can you have wolves with no damage? No. Can you have wolves with a tolerable level of damage? Yes. There are tools to do that. There’s compensation and livestock protection measures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves kill livestock much less frequently than you’d believe. I find it amazing still, given almost unlimited opportunity, that there’s as few depredations as there are. But resolution of some of those conflicts has involved killing wolves. We’ve killed nearly 2,000 wolves in the past 20 years due to livestock depredation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to respect both sides of the issue. You can see some people want wolves back and some don’t want to be run out of business. There’s compromise but it takes both sides to do that. It’s not easy and it’s not cheap.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1331059935,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":984},"headData":{"title":"Interview: Retired Federal Wolf-Recovery Coordinator on OR7 and the Great Wolf Debate | KQED","description":"After a two-month jaunt in Northern California, the lone wolf known as OR7 is now hanging out near the state border with Oregon. The two-year-old male wolf, California’s first in almost 90 years, has stirred both fascination and concern. OR7 has also prompted state officials to consider how to manage a growing wolf population. 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(Image: Oregon Department of Fish and Game)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a two-month jaunt in Northern California, the lone wolf known as OR7 is now hanging out near the state border with Oregon. The two-year-old male wolf, California’s first in almost 90 years, has stirred both fascination and concern. OR7 has also prompted state officials to consider how to manage a growing wolf population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other Western states, the expansion of wolves has brought intense public debate, not to mention years of lawsuits. Ranchers and hunters believe the wolves kill too many livestock and elk. Environmental groups say ecosystems are healthier with a top predator like wolves. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see if California could avoid this knock-down-drag-out fight, I spoke to \u003ca href=\"http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/04/27/1624742/ed-bangs-was-face-of-wolf-recovery.html\">\u003cstrong>Ed Bangs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, the recently retired wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He’s been on the frontlines of the wolf debate for more than two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wolves have made an astounding recovery in the West, which is why a wolf came into California, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are one of the most adaptable species on Earth. They’re a very cool animal. They can stand just about anything except for human persecution. Our society decided that wolves didn’t have a place in the lower 48 and we got rid of them all. By 1930, they were gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the environmental movement in the 60s, Canada and Alaska started wolf recovery. Wolf populations in Canada started to expand and as they did, we started to see a few show up in northern Montana. In 1986, the first den was discovered. Since then, natural recovery has pretty much filled up northern Montana and Idaho. And we reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in 1995 and 1996 to accelerate wolf recovery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I retired, there were over 1,700 wolves in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and parts of Washington and Oregon. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How would a pack get established in California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wolves always leave their pack as lone animals. Males and females disperse at equal rates and equal distances. A pack is all family members, so it’s like looking for a date at your dinner table. If you want to get married, you leave town. They head out and avoid other packs. They scent-mark until they find someone of the opposite sex. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The peak of breeding season is Valentine’s Day. That’s what starts a pack – these lone males and females. The lone male in California has probably missed his chance this year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve had dispersing wolves going into Colorado for 10 years now. They are no closer to a pack than they were 10 years ago. When you have a loner, it’s biologically meaningless. You need a pair to breed. But what it does do is fire up the public. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Right, which is what’s happened in other states. Is there any way that California can avoid the battles and lawsuits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, I don’t think so. It’s nice to imagine that. You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know, all the biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concept of wolves immediately polarizes people. You’re calling me to talk about wolves, not red-backed voles. And there’s a reason for that: because people are fascinated by wolves. Anytime you mix wolves and people, the reactions are very predictable. California is going to go through that very thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That doesn’t sound too promising...\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not a bad thing. It forces a fair, open \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/05/in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome/\">debate\u003c/a>. Imagine if it was the way it was before, when no one cared at all about natural resources or wildlife. Apathy is a lot worse. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think California Fish and Game is going about it in the right way. They’re transparent and open. They’ve had public contact. I think it’s a positive sign. I’m a firm believer that better information gives you the chance to make better decisions. There’ll be rough spots in the road, but getting out in front of it is a good thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some ranchers and environmentalists are working on methods to coexist with wolves…\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no silver bullet, pardon the pun. To the livestock industry, wolf losses are so small, you can’t even measure them. If it’s your calf being killed, it’s a very big deal. Can you have wolves with no damage? No. Can you have wolves with a tolerable level of damage? Yes. There are tools to do that. There’s compensation and livestock protection measures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves kill livestock much less frequently than you’d believe. I find it amazing still, given almost unlimited opportunity, that there’s as few depredations as there are. But resolution of some of those conflicts has involved killing wolves. We’ve killed nearly 2,000 wolves in the past 20 years due to livestock depredation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have to respect both sides of the issue. You can see some people want wolves back and some don’t want to be run out of business. There’s compromise but it takes both sides to do that. It’s not easy and it’s not cheap.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/58435/interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california","authors":["239"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2362","news_2356","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_58343":{"type":"posts","id":"news_58343","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"58343","score":null,"sort":[1330970428000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome","title":"In Rural California, Lone Wolf Not So Welcome","publishDate":1330970428,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>OR7, the lone gray wolf from a pack in Oregon, crossed back into his home state last Thursday after two months of wandering in Northern California. OR7’s trek made him the first wolf in California in almost 90 years. Officials say it’s possible the wolf will continue to travel both states. (\u003cstrong>Update Mar 5\u003c/strong>: Apparently so. California Fish and Game reports today that OR7 has crossed back into California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf track in the snow. Tanya Dronoff/Dept of Fish and Game\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, California has been thrown into a national debate about how to manage wolves. Environmentalists want to see a wolf population restored in the state. For others, OR7 is not a welcome visitor. In Lassen County, where OR7 has spent the bulk of his time, wolf opposition is heating up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent county board of supervisors meeting in Susanville, a town in the state’s rural northeast corner, Fish and Game biologist Karen Kovacs takes the podium. “What we’re here today to do is just to share what we know about wolves in California,” she says to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kovacs’ agency gets daily downloads about the two-year-old male wolf’s location through its radio collar. “Are there other wolves in California? That’s a $64 million dollar question,” she says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/06/interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california/\">\u003cstrong>Interview: Retired U.S. Wolf Recovery Coordinator on Wolves and California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If there's one thing Kovacs has learned since OR7 arrived, it’s that wolves make people emotional. For several weeks, Kovacs and other wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wolf in California is considered endangered,” responds Susan Moore of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “And if you should take it, kill it, it is a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy of sentiment has followed wolves from the moment they were reintroduced in the West almost 20 years ago. In states like Idaho and Montana, where wolf populations have rebounded, an all-out war has broken out between ranchers and hunters, who say wolves kill too many livestock and elk, and environmentalists, who see the animals as a key part of a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, that debate has come to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Wolf’s Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quiet pine forest outside of Susanville, Kovacs and Fish and Game biologist Richard Callas walk through a light layer of snow. OR7 crossed a major highway nearby a few weeks ago, not far from where California’s last wolf was trapped and killed in 1924. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way we find his tracks is because they’re pretty darn big,” says Kovacs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=42104&inline=true\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see a larger map of where OR7 has traveled.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the wolf's protection, his exact location is kept secret. But once he leaves an area, Kovacs and Callas descend to see what he’s been eating. “We know that OR7 has fed on two deer. We don’t know if he killed them or scavenged them,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life isn’t easy for a wolf on his own. But there’s a reason OR7 has traveled 2,000 miles since he left his pack in Oregon last September. “His love life hasn’t been much to brag about lately,” Callas says. “But he’s certainly looking for a mate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, it’s taken about 10 years for a pack to get established after the first wolf showed up. But biologists aren’t sure how successful wolves will be here. “Our elk population is smaller than some state like Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Our deer numbers were lower than they were,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oregon’s wolf packs live hundreds of miles from the border, it could be some time before another wolf wanders this way. But for the Department of Fish and Game, that may not matter. Groups on both sides are calling for some kind of plan to manage wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are entities out there who are ready to litigate at the drop of a hat,” says Kovacs. “Can we get those stakeholders here in California to the table to collectively meet to move forward?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Ranchers Concerned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold morning at Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville, Jack Hanson is getting ready to feed 300 hungry cattle. A few weeks ago, OR7 wasn’t far from here. “About 17 or 18 miles as the crow flies,” says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31954\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ranch\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31954\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR7 wandered close to Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson says it’s not OR7 that’s he’s worried about. It’s that wolf populations could grow. In other states, some ranchers are trying out tools to deter wolves, like special fencing and loud noises. Some even get text messages when wolves are close. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most ranchers see wolves as one more thing to deal with in an already tough industry, says Hanson. Still, he wants to be part of the discussion. “We’ll be able to have a dialogue with agencies. I don’t think it will ever come to exactly where we want it, which is not to have them back in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State and Federal Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are currently protected in California under the federal Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups are petitioning the state to protect them under California law as well. That would require the Department of Fish and Game to figure out how many wolves belong in California and how they’ll recover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is also considering whether to specially protect California wolves. Populations in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon and Washington have already been taken off the endangered species list, but this week the agency recommended removing protection for wolves in some of the remaining parts of the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wolves may still be protected, however. Fish and Wildlife is considering whether to specially protect wolves in parts of Oregon, Washington and California. If so, the agency would consider writing a recovery plan for what would be known as the Pacific Northwest population. That decision is due by September 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see California as being essential to the recovery of wolves. It’s not prime wolf habitat,” says Dan Ashe, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “But certainly, wolves will move hopefully in the future and will find some hospitable territory in California. Some may establish themselves there, but hopefully they’ll be well-managed under state law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weathering the Debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is: Can California avoid the battles that other states have seen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I don’t think so,” says Ed Bangs, the recently retired Wolf Recovery Coordinator at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He’s been in the middle of the Western wolf debate for two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to remember wolves and wolf management has nothing to do with reality. I mean we can give you facts, you know all this biology stuff. That isn’t what people talk about. They’re talking about what wolves mean to them symbolically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he thinks that debate isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Imagine if it was the way it was before when no one cared at all about natural resources or wildlife? Apathy is a lot worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 30 years ago, there were only a handful of gray wolves in the West. Today, there are more than 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1331066544,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1439},"headData":{"title":"In Rural California, Lone Wolf Not So Welcome | KQED","description":"OR7, the lone gray wolf from a pack in Oregon, crossed back into his home state last Thursday after two months of wandering in Northern California. OR7’s trek made him the first wolf in California in almost 90 years. Officials say it’s possible the wolf will continue to travel both states. 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California Fish and Game reports today that OR7 has crossed back into California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58422\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/03/Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Wolf-OR7-snow-track-Tanya-Dronoff\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wolf track in the snow. Tanya Dronoff/Dept of Fish and Game\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, California has been thrown into a national debate about how to manage wolves. Environmentalists want to see a wolf population restored in the state. For others, OR7 is not a welcome visitor. 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That’s a $64 million dollar question,” she says. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/06/interview-retired-wolf-recovery-coordinator-on-or7-and-california/\">\u003cstrong>Interview: Retired U.S. Wolf Recovery Coordinator on Wolves and California\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If there's one thing Kovacs has learned since OR7 arrived, it’s that wolves make people emotional. For several weeks, Kovacs and other wildlife officials have attended a number of public meetings about California’s wolf. In the state’s northern counties, the reaction has been vocal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The protection afforded something that doesn’t belong here in the first place doesn’t make any sense,” says Susanville resident Len Grizwold. Says another resident: “Be cautious, folks. They’re here to tell you there’s nothing to worry about.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reception from county supervisor and rancher Bob Pyle isn’t any warmer. “I really don’t care what it is. If it’s killing my cattle, I’m gonna kill it,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any wolf in California is considered endangered,” responds Susan Moore of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “And if you should take it, kill it, it is a $100,000 fine or a year in jail, or both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>If it's killing my cattle, I'm gonna kill it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This dichotomy of sentiment has followed wolves from the moment they were reintroduced in the West almost 20 years ago. In states like Idaho and Montana, where wolf populations have rebounded, an all-out war has broken out between ranchers and hunters, who say wolves kill too many livestock and elk, and environmentalists, who see the animals as a key part of a healthy ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With OR7’s arrival, that debate has come to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Wolf’s Trail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a quiet pine forest outside of Susanville, Kovacs and Fish and Game biologist Richard Callas walk through a light layer of snow. OR7 crossed a major highway nearby a few weeks ago, not far from where California’s last wolf was trapped and killed in 1924. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way we find his tracks is because they’re pretty darn big,” says Kovacs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31958\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=42104&inline=true\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Map\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31958\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see a larger map of where OR7 has traveled.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the wolf's protection, his exact location is kept secret. But once he leaves an area, Kovacs and Callas descend to see what he’s been eating. “We know that OR7 has fed on two deer. We don’t know if he killed them or scavenged them,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life isn’t easy for a wolf on his own. But there’s a reason OR7 has traveled 2,000 miles since he left his pack in Oregon last September. “His love life hasn’t been much to brag about lately,” Callas says. “But he’s certainly looking for a mate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other states, it’s taken about 10 years for a pack to get established after the first wolf showed up. But biologists aren’t sure how successful wolves will be here. “Our elk population is smaller than some state like Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Our deer numbers were lower than they were,” Callas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oregon’s wolf packs live hundreds of miles from the border, it could be some time before another wolf wanders this way. But for the Department of Fish and Game, that may not matter. Groups on both sides are calling for some kind of plan to manage wolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are entities out there who are ready to litigate at the drop of a hat,” says Kovacs. “Can we get those stakeholders here in California to the table to collectively meet to move forward?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Ranchers Concerned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a cold morning at Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville, Jack Hanson is getting ready to feed 300 hungry cattle. A few weeks ago, OR7 wasn’t far from here. “About 17 or 18 miles as the crow flies,” says Hanson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31954\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/files/2012/03/DSC00093.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ranch\" width=\"320\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31954\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OR7 wandered close to Willow Creek Ranch outside of Susanville.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanson says it’s not OR7 that’s he’s worried about. It’s that wolf populations could grow. In other states, some ranchers are trying out tools to deter wolves, like special fencing and loud noises. Some even get text messages when wolves are close. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most ranchers see wolves as one more thing to deal with in an already tough industry, says Hanson. Still, he wants to be part of the discussion. “We’ll be able to have a dialogue with agencies. I don’t think it will ever come to exactly where we want it, which is not to have them back in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State and Federal Protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves are currently protected in California under the federal Endangered Species Act, but several environmental groups are petitioning the state to protect them under California law as well. That would require the Department of Fish and Game to figure out how many wolves belong in California and how they’ll recover. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is also considering whether to specially protect California wolves. Populations in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon and Washington have already been taken off the endangered species list, but this week the agency recommended removing protection for wolves in some of the remaining parts of the lower 48 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California wolves may still be protected, however. Fish and Wildlife is considering whether to specially protect wolves in parts of Oregon, Washington and California. If so, the agency would consider writing a recovery plan for what would be known as the Pacific Northwest population. That decision is due by September 30th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see California as being essential to the recovery of wolves. It’s not prime wolf habitat,” says Dan Ashe, director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. “But certainly, wolves will move hopefully in the future and will find some hospitable territory in California. 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Apathy is a lot worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 30 years ago, there were only a handful of gray wolves in the West. Today, there are more than 1,600.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/58343/in-rural-california-lone-wolf-not-so-welcome","authors":["239"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_2356","news_2354"],"label":"news_6944"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. 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