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Washington Wildlife Commission to hear wolf plan briefing

Maps shows general locations of five wolf packs documented in Washington (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)
Maps shows general locations of five wolf packs documented in Washington (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)

ENDANGERED SPECIES –Washington’s gray wolf conservation and management plan will take another step toward adoption Thursday when the nearly completed document – years in the making – is presented to the state Fish and Wildlife Commission.

State wildlife officials will start their presentation to the commission at 10 a.m. in the Natural Resources Building in Olympia.

The presentation will include a summary of comments received from public and scientific peer reviews and the 17-member Wolf Working Group.

Public comment will be allowed after the briefing, which is expected to carry on to late afternoon.

Here's the agenda is for this special meeting.

Public meetings across the state are possible, but have not been announced.

The commission may consider approval of a final plan later this year.

Following are links to documents from the Washington Fish and Wildlife Department's Wolf Management Website:

 

Wolf Working Group Review Draft: Wolf Conservation and Management Plan for Washington- This draft was discusssed by the Wolf Working Group at its June 8-9, 2011, meeting.

Other recent updates


For more information, see: Wolf Plan Development Process and Archive



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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