Young male wolf killed in eastern Oregon to reduce livestock losses

State wildlife biologists trapped and killed a gray wolf early today on an eastern Oregon ranch near Joseph, where wolves killed livestock last month. The young uncollared male wolf was part of the Imnaha pack, which has killed at least four domestic animals so far this year on private grazing land near Wallowa Lake. Now numbering about 14, the pack killed domestic livestock in the same area in May 2010. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife intends to remove a second uncollared wolf from the pack and has issued 12 "caught in the act" permits to ranchers, said agency spokeswoman Michelle Dennehy. The permits allow cattle producers to shoot a wolf that they see in the act of biting, wounding or killing livestock...more