Pay Checks, in Response to “Wolves Facing Extinction—Again” on 4/24 I would like to challenge you to ask Susan Prince and Nicole Vulcan if they are willing to give their pay checks to the ranchers who have lost livestock to wolves who have trespassed on private property?? Wolves should be controlled just like any other […]
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Letters to the Editor
GUEST OPINION Public Health or Pharma Profits? Oregon House Bill 3063 would remove religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccines in children and force families who do not comply with the Oregon Health Authority’s schedule to remove children from childcare and school (public or private). This includes children whose parents choose a delayed vaccine schedule or […]
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Book Talk: Oregon’s Lone Wolf
As a young girl, Beckie Elgin was the daughter of a zoo director in Des Moines, Iowa. That’s where she first encountered wolves. As she studied them, she became fascinated by their secretive and wild nature. She also knew they were not meant to be pets and needed to be free to roam in the […]
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Lone Wolf Walking, Searching for a Mate
Oregon wolf population grows to 110
Since the gray wolf was reintroduced by federal wildlife officials, the program hasn’t been without controversy as the animals move west through Idaho and into Washington and Oregon. A wolf can travel long distances quickly. Take OR 25, a male wolf that dispersed from his Imnaha pack in northeast Oregon just a year ago. In […]
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Film Events 4/22-4/29
OR7 – The Journey Oregon Wild premieres the documentary OR7 – The Journey. Named as if a New York hip hop artist, OR7 is the famed male wandering gray wolf that formed the first wolf pack west of the Cascade Range in 70 years. A truly heartwarming story about rebounding wolf population, and a story […]
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Killing Wildlife for Family Fun. . .
. . .is no fun at all.
When I was a kid, “growin’ up on the farm” in Connecticut, my uncles and I had a Thanksgiving tradition of going waterfowl hunting early that morning. When we had our limit in Black Ducks—the East Coast equivalent of our Mallards— we’d return home mid-afternoon, clean our ducks and prepare them for my grandmother and […]
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Wolf OR7 is a Proud Poppa
Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office OR7’s adorable offspring. This just in via Natural World columnist Jim Anderson: According to word from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wolf OR7 not only has a girlfriend, but that term is past tense. He now has a “mate,” and between them […]
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Wandering Wolves
Years after protections were put in place, the wolf returns to Oregon
No one would have the slightest idea of the wanderings of “Journey,” AKA, OR-7, without the Federal Endangered Species ruling on the releases of wolves in Wyoming in 1995. To accomplish that, a lot of changes in attitude took place in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and […]