{"id":6810,"date":"2019-06-24T15:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T15:13:50","slug":"oregon-gray-wolves-on-path-to-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/oregon-gray-wolves-on-path-to-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Gray wolves on path to recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Oregon Governor Kate Brown is distancing herself from one of her agency heads\u2019 support for stripping away federal endangered species protections for gray wolves. She said she was not aware of her wildlife chief\u2019s support for the move and that she doesn\u2019t agree with it.<\/p>\n

At least, not all of it. While Brown made clear in a letter sent recently to the Trump administration that she does not support federally delisting wolves, she also doesn\u2019t think federal protections are still warranted in Oregon for the wolves, whose official population count in the state is at least 137.<\/p>\n

Brown told reporters that she and Oregon Fish and Wildlife Director Curt Melcher have a \u201cdisagreement in philosophy\u201d regarding whether wolves still need to be federally listed throughout the Lower 48.<\/p>\n

But she has stopped short of advocating for ongoing federal protection of gray wolves in Oregon, instead walking a fine line in a letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.<\/p>\n

Oregon\u2019s effort \u201cgives me confidence that wolves are on the path to recovery and do not warrant a listing within Oregon,\u201d Brown wrote. She said wolves should be federally listed because they need protections elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Asked whether that stance meant she would support a partial federal delisting of wolves, just in Oregon, Brown was noncommittal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt depends upon what the scenario looks like,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like wolves pay attention to statewide boundaries. This needs a regional strategy and a range-wide recovery plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolves are already partially delisted in the eastern third of Oregon and Washington by a 2011 act of Congress. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering removing protections for the wolf across its range, and is collecting public comments on the matter until mid-July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: The Columbian in Oregon
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown is distancing herself from one of her agency heads\u2019 support for stripping away federal endangered species protections for gray wolves. She said she was not aware of her wildlife chief\u2019s support for the move and that she doesn\u2019t agree with it. At least, not all of it. While Brown made clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[46,23],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-oregon","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6895,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions\/6895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}