{"id":119178,"date":"2025-03-08T03:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/despicable-wolf-bills-in-washington-legislature-defeated\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T03:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:35:15","slug":"despicable-wolf-bills-in-washington-legislature-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=119178","title":{"rendered":"Despicable Wolf Bills in Washington Legislature Defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Endangered Species Coalition once again helped lead the defeat of anti-wolf bills introduced in the year\u2019s Washington Legislature. In what has become an annual occurrence, bills were introduced to allow the baiting and killing of wolves, allow counties to manage wolves, and to strip protections that wolves have under the state\u2019s Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves first started to recolonize the state in 2008 when the first successful breeding pair produced a litter. During the past seventeen years while we have seen an overall increase in numbers their rate of growth has slowed, poaching has increased, and the number of breeding pairs declined from 2022 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0We still don\u2019t have any packs or breeding pairs in the Southern Cascades and Northwest Coast recovery zone the largest of the state\u2019s three recovery zone.<\/p>\n<p>During 2023 and 2024 the Endangered Species Coalition and our allies successfully helped defeat a proposal from the Department of Fish and Wildlife that would have down listed protections of wolves from endangered to sensitive under the state Endangered Species Act. This was especially important as the wolves in the eastern third of the state are not protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to deny the department\u2019s request as it did not meet the State\u2019s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan, was based on a scientifically disputed modeling study, and didn\u2019t focus on the recovery of wolves throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Washington House Bill 1311 would have overturned the commission\u2019s decision.\u00a0 Our staff lobbied and testified against the bill and our Washington State members inundated the legislature with comments against the bill which helped kill it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Endangered Species Coalition once again helped lead the defeat of anti-wolf bills introduced in the year\u2019s Washington Legislature. 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