Environmental

Petition Filed to Require Nonlethal Steps to Control Washington Wolves

Eight Groups Ask State Wildlife Agency to Make Key Parts of Wolf Plan Into State Law

OLYMPIA, Wash.–(ENEWSPF)–June 9, 2014.  Eight conservation groups filed a petitionlate Friday requesting that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife enact rules that sharply limit the use of lethal control of wolves to respond to livestock depredations. Most prominently the petition asks the state to require livestock producers to exhaust nonlethal measures to prevent depredations before any lethal…

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