Wolf Advisory Group Meeting
Wolf Advisory Group Meeting. I'm Greg Martin with Washington Ag Today.
An upcoming meeting of the Wolf Advisory Group will once again seek to get a handle on the wolf issue here in the state. Donny Martorello is the Wolf Policy Lead with WA Fish and Wildlife and says it's really a big issue to take in.
MARTORELLO: From a 30-thousand foot level kind of where we're at...if you think about the four objectives in our wolf conservation management plan they kind of speak to, one, the recovery objectives for the state endangered species reaching a recovery level to delist. Another one is minimize conflict between livestock and wolves so that's kind of the issue of depredation of wolves on livestock. Another one is to maintain a healthy prey base and the last one is to seek a public understanding for co-existence.
Martorell says there is some forward movement in the issue.
MARTORELLO: We're progressing as expected in the first three. The one about trying to develop a public understanding for a co-existence with wolves here about a year ago we kind of stepped back and looked at it from this high level, that's the objective we're struggling with the most and that we haven't seen the kind of progression that we's like to see.
He says they have invested a lot of resources and time in getting that needle to budge.
MARTORELLO: That's why you see the intensive work that those WAG members are doing and the department is doing and other stakeholders to try to make some progress on that.
We'll delve a little deeper in
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