Defenders' Experts
Oregon Wolf Advocacy Committee
In 2003, Defenders’ Director of Western Species Conservation was selected by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to represent wolf conservation on a 14-member Wolf Advisory Committee. Other stakeholders at the table included livestock producers, educators, biologists, tribal members, hunters, trappers, rural citizens, citizens-at-large, economists, rangeland conservationists, county commissioners, and federal land managers.
Oregon’s Wolf Advisory Committee met for a year beginning in late 2003, and worked with the state wildlife agency to draft a wolf conservation and management plan. The draft was adopted by the Commission as the official Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan in February 2005. Read more about the history of Oregon’s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan
Several components of the Plan require legislative action, and attempts were made in 2005 and 2007 to implement those components. Political maneuverings yielded bills that strayed too far from the Plan, and thus could not be supported by Defenders. We have succeeded in preventing any anti-wolf bills from becoming law, and we will continue to work toward a bill that adequately reflects the intent of the Plan.
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