Seattle (AP) — The wolves came within howling distance of the house, but were gone by the time Kim Jacobs found dead lambs on her family’s eastern Oregon ranch.
While many conservationists welcome the return of gray wolves into the Pacific Northwest, Jacobs wants to shoot them if they harm her livestock.
As wolves have moved into Oregon and Washington, the conflicts that marked wolf debates in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming are unfolding here. This summer, Washington wildlife officials are finalizing a draft wolf management plan that has been so heated that an advisory group can’t agree on some of the basics.
Congress in April stripped federal endangered-species protections from wolves in Montana, Idaho and the eastern one-third of Washington and Oregon, but they remain protected in the western two-thirds of both states.
