Conservation Northwest remains committed to protecting and recovering mountain caribou and their habitat in Washington and British Columbia, and will continue to work with non-profit, tribal and government partners to prevent the local extinction of these endangered Inland Northwest icons.
The state legislative session wrapped up in Olympia last month, and included in the budget were three items related to Washington’s wolves—funding for a special wolf survey in the South Cascades, money for ongoing conflict deterrence, and funds for a study on wolf translocation.
We’re working with the National Wildlife Federation and elected leaders to support House Resolution 4647, which would provide funding our wildlife need.
Today, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke was at North Cascades National Park Complex headquarters making remarks on grizzly bear restoration. In response to these announcements, Conservation Northwest issued the following statement.
We think the current Wolf Plan, which was based on extensive public process and peer review, is better left as is until recovery goals are achieved.
Social tolerance for wolves continues to grow as well, evidenced by growing uptake of deterrence measures by livestock operators and reduced acrimony in the state legislature.
The 2017 field season report from our Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project is now available!
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal and more than a dozen other Members of Congress submitted a letter to USFWS Deputy Director Greg Sheehan demanding that the Service do its duty in protecting Canada lynx from extinction as mandated by the Endangered Species Act.
For those of us who have worked for decades to restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades, the dream is alive, well and still worth fighting for — and we intend to do just that.
It’s clear that lynx are facing extinction threats and warrant federal wildlife protections.