Endangered Species Support and Wolf Attack

Endangered Species Support and Wolf Attack plus Exporting & Importing Chicken. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

A pair of wolf attacks in northwest Oregon have left one rancher with at least seven dead sheep and another rancher with a wounded cow. Mark Lane says he is trying to nurse the cow back into good health but may have to put it down.

LANE: They're getting to be a pretty big problem up in that area, the Umatilla pack. They confirmed my wolf attack so fast because the GPS collaring on the wolves. There was actually two wolves in the pasture early morning on the 9th but what do you do? You can't just go out and get rid of them. We've got to be able to control them. We just can't let them run wild.

Last Wednesday, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings and 42 Members of Congress sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Ashe and NOAA Administrator Sullivan requesting a six-month extension of the public comment period for three proposed Endangered Species Act regulations.

HASTINGS: We hope to have those bills on the floor before the August recess. They made modest changes to the Endangered Species Act - principally it involves more local people in the decision of listing or delisting species and it requires more transparency in listing or delisting species.

Now, China may get the OK to import U.S. chicken and send the fully cooked processed products back to the U.S. Gary Crawford has more.

(USDA Report)

Thanks Gary. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.