Livestock depredations by a wolf prompt emergency declaration in Oregon

Fence Post ^ | Feb 21, 2025 | Rachel Gabel

[bray]

Oregon State gummit would rather worship the earth and starve than manage its vast resources.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Declare yourself a cow.

Next, do self defense.”

That could work for just about anything. Plus being in Oregon, it wouldn’t be the first person that declared they were a cow.

[SaxxonWoods]

Yes, they do.

[verum ago]

I would agree, but I’m pretty sure the released wolves have GPS trackers.

The animal can be separated from the collar that the tracker is on.

That said, if they've got any biometric telemetry, they might be able to tell if it's still alive in more or less real time. So yeah, probably better not to risk it.

Sorta related anecdote: once upon I time I worked for a state Fish and Game agency. We had some radio tagged (just a short range pinger, not GPS) stocker trout as part of a study to find out where they were moving around to and what was eating them other than people. Since the radio tags had a long battery life and were kinda pricy, we routinely recovered them when we could for reuse. (The pinger would change from a 2 digit to a 3 digit code if stationary for more than a preset amount of time, which was an 'I'm dead' signal, so we knew when to triangulate and recover them). There was one particular cormorant colony that the tags kept showing up at.

Well, one night under cover of a thunderstorm some guy went and blasted all the cormorants he could at the colony, after first disabling the two trail cams we had pointed it- he even stuck a a taunting note in front of the cameras before pulling the battery, but left the SD card so we could see his taunts. He'd definitely scouted the cameras first, because it wasn't easy to approach one without the other capturing his face, but he pulled it off. He also trashed a couple fixed radio receivers we had. He additionally recovered all his empty shells too.

So, after this happened, noting that there were no radio pings from the colony when we would expect several, we simply went to the nearest town and drove around with our Yagi antenna out the truck window until we found a house with 6 radio tags pinging away from inside of it. At that point the matter was turned over to law enforcement. I never did hear what the end result was.

The guy was clever enough to do it at night, during thunder, hide his face, and recover his empties...

...but greedy enough to snag the radio tags in hope of selling them, without stopping to think they might still be doing exactly what they were designed to do.

[crz]

I dunno how it is now up there but one of the best ways to get rid of them is to nick them and let the pack take care of them.

The pack will kill a wounded wolf.

Ive seen these bastards clean out an entire deer herd, 23, in three weeks. Gibs City Michigan.

Big cats will only kill once a week or so. Wolves will kill for the fun of it.

[whitney69]

Yeah, let’s kill the wolf. Doesn’t make any difference that they were here first, and never touched a rancher’s cow until the ranchers brought them in and failed to protect them. That’s man’s answer to everything. If it bothers you, kill it even though you created the conflict.

Then what do you do when the varmint problem comes up? Wolves are opportunistic carnivores whose primary prey are deer, elk and moose. When these prey are not available, wolves will eat smaller animals such as rabbits, beavers, grouse, ravens, skunks, coyotes, porcupines, eagles and fish. See anything on the list about cattle? If someone goes swimming in the ocean in a wet suit with the seals and they swim away and that someone gets nailed by a shark, is it right to go out in the ocean and start killing sharks at randem? It’s been done.

I’m reminded of the Warner Brothers’ short that had a mouse problem in a hotel. They sent up a cat that became a problem, so they sent up a dog. When the dog became a problem, they sent up a lion. When the lion became a problem they sent up an elephant. When the elephant became the problem they sent up a mouse. It’s almost always the quick fix that is the problem.

wy69

[george76]

Wolf packs not only kill directly / also skinny cows, sheep .. are not eating and lose their babies.. causing financial strain on the family ranchers.

[desertsolitaire]

And the sane state officials who can’t be bothered to even warn cattle ranchers that a known, calf-killing GPS tracked wolf is nearby them, would certainly go to extremes to investigate and punish ranchers who make the wolf “disappear”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From an old lament modernized.

I raise livestock, the wolves kill them.
When I protect my livestock I am arrested,
Because a GREAT MAN who is above raising livestock,
Would be in need of wolves.

SSS. (Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.)

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Time to bring back Compound 1080.

[old school]

Zackly!

[Salvavida]

A county can’t handle a wolf problem and has to call upon the state?

What a bunch of faggots.

[The Westerner]

Thank you, george76, for posting this well-written article! Thank heavens there’s a new sheriff in town!

[The Westerner]

“...That’s man’s answer to everything. If it bothers you, kill it even though you created the conflict...”

Man’s answer to everything? Kill...?

[SPDSHDW]

Cut the collar and dump it in a nice river. As long as these trackers don’t monitor heart rates or other biometrics, it’ll be too late to find out.

[AuntB]

Btt

[Valpal1]

Most of the trackers also emit life sign vitals so they’ll know instantly when and where it’s heart stopped and if the collar was cut off and moved.

[I-ambush]

“OR 158”
Not a very intimidating name for a dread predator. How about “El Diablo” or “Fang” or “Gray Shadow?”

[Valpal1]

You are genius!

[riverrunner]

Killing or wounding and endangered species is a federal felony.

One should not talk about it.