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WDFW eliminates Wedge wolf pack
By DON JENKINS
Capital Press
Southern Oregon wolves kill
yearling steers near Fort Klamath
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
The Wedge wolf pack’s two
last members were killed by
Washington Fish and Wild-
life on Aug. 13, the department
announced Monday.
The pack, whose third mem-
ber was removed by the depart-
ment July 27, had killed at least
two calves and injured 20 oth-
ers between May 11 and Aug.
1. The pack also probably
killed another calf, according
to the department.
Fish and Wildlife had hoped
eliminating one female wolf
would stop the attacks on cat-
tle. Department Director Kelly
Susewind authorized removing
the last two wolves, a male and
female, after they attacked two
more calves.
The calves belonged to three
different ranches. The depart-
ment said each producer tried
to prevent the attacks with
non-lethal measures to deter the
wolves. The attacks occurred
on public and private land.
The
department
also
announced Aug. 13 it will kill
one or two wolves in the Lead-
point pack, also in Stevens
County.
The pack has killed three
calves and injured nine oth-
ers in a large private pasture
since June 19. The department
initially hoped more lights,
flapping ribbons and people
patrolling the pasture would
stop the attacks.
Wolf advocates are criticiz-
WDFW
The last two members of the Wedge wolf pack in Stevens Coun-
ty, Wash., have been culled by the state Department of Fish
and Wildlife.
ing Fish and Wildlife’s use of
lethal control. They are urg-
ing Gov. Jay Inslee to order
the department to subject its
lethal-removal policy to an
environmental and a public
review.
The department says it
kills wolves as a last resort to
stop attacks on livestock. The
department says it needs a flex-
ible policy to maintain social
acceptance of wolves and to
meet its obligation to protect
the public and property from
dangerous wildlife.
Ranchers have criticized
Fish and Wildlife for being
slow to use lethal control, let-
ting packs grow accustomed to
attacking livestock, resulting
in more killed or mauled cat-
tle and eventually more dead
wolves.
“Finding the balance for
wolves and livestock-based
livelihoods to co-exist is
not always as easy as we’d
like it to be,” Fish and Wild-
life wolf policy leader
Donny Martorello said in a
statement.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — As
wolves continue to prey on cattle in the
Wood River Valley of southwest Ore-
gon, ranchers are growing impatient
waiting to hear whether the predators
will remain protected under the federal
Endangered Species Act.
Wolves have killed seven yearling
steers since July 17 on private pastures
near Fort Klamath, a rural community
between Klamath Falls and Crater Lake
National Park. The most recent incident
was confirmed Monday by the Ore-
gon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
All attacks were attributed to the Rogue
pack.
The Rogue pack also killed two
yearling steers in the same area in May,
and a 10th death was ruled “possible/
unknown,” according to investigation
reports from ODFW. In each case, the
steers weighed 650-975 pounds.
While the state has delisted gray
wolves in Eastern Oregon, they remain
listed as federally endangered west of
highways 395, 78 and 95. That includes
the southern Cascade Range, home
of the Rogue pack sired by OR-7, the
wolf that gained notoriety for traveling
from northeastern Oregon to California
before settling in southern Oregon.
Last year, the Trump administra-
tion issued a proposal to remove wolves
from the endangered species list across
the Lower 48 states. The Oregon Cattle-
men’s Association supported the move,
arguing ranchers and wildlife manag-
ers should be able to cull wolves that
habitually raid livestock. Environmen-
tal groups oppose delisting.
A public comment period for the
proposed rule ended May 14, 2019.
More than a year later, the outcome is
still undetermined.
Vanessa Kauffman, a spokeswoman
for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
in Washington, D.C., said there is no
time frame for a final decision. Mean-
while, the OCA is calling for immedi-
ate action.
“If the agencies were managing
wolves responsibly then these severe
depredations could be handled effec-
tively,” said Rodger Huffman, a Union
County rancher and chairman of the
association’s wolf committee, in a July
press release.
Perhaps no other group of wolves
exemplifies the issue better than the
Rogue pack.
John Stephenson, a wildlife biolo-
gist and wolf specialist for the USFWS,
is tasked with monitoring the pack and
helping ranchers protect their livestock.
It hasn’t been easy, as the wolves have
repeatedly killed cattle on both sides of
the Sky Lakes Wilderness in the South-
ern Oregon Cascades.
On the west side of the range, the
problem has been at Mill-Mar Ranch
about 45 miles northwest of Medford.
Rancher Ted Birdseye tried everything
from hanging fladry — small flags —
to using an waving inflatable tube man
like those seen at used car lots to scare
away wolves.
Finally, Birdseye built a 5-foot-tall,
3-mile-long wildlife fence around his
pasture to keep the pack at bay. The
$46,000 fence was paid for with money
from the USFWS, Jackson County and
private funding raised by the Klam-
ath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center.
New executive director to lead Oregon Cattlemen’s Association
Dennee will take over
position beginning Oct. 1
By GEORGE PLAVEN
Capital Press
SALEM — A new executive
director is coming to the Oregon
Cattlemen’s Association.
Tammy Dennee was hired Aug.
13 to lead the industry lobbying
group, representing 1,800 rancher
members across the state. She
replaces Jerome Rosa, who left in
July to take over as head of the Ari-
zona Cattle Growers Association.
While Dennee is officially join-
ing the OCA, she won’t have to
go far. For the last five years, she
has been the legislative director of
the Oregon Dairy Farmers Asso-
ciation, which shares an office
Tammy
Dennee
in Salem with
the
cattlemen’s
association.
That
means
Dennee will be
moving all of 5
feet — just to the
other side of the
wall — when she
begins her new job
Oct. 1.
OCA President and Harney
County rancher Tom Sharp said
Dennee is “exceptionally quali-
fied” for the position, adding that
the group’s hiring committee was
impressed with her years of expe-
rience working on behalf of agri-
culture at the Oregon State Capitol.
“I have complete confidence
Tammy will do great work on
behalf of our mission and member-
ship,” Sharp said in a statement.
Dennee, 58, is a lifelong Ore-
gonian, born in Hood River and
raised in The Dalles. For a while
in Hood River, Dennee said, her
grandparents had a small farm
with cows, horses, chickens and
a giant garden that, in the eyes
of a child, seemed to stretch for
blocks.
Dennee’s paternal grandfather
was also a herdsman for a dairy
farm near Donald, Ore. One sum-
mer, she remembers working on
a ranch near Grass Valley in rural
Sherman County, where she was
introduced to the physical strenu-
ous job of “bucking,” or stacking,
hay bales by hand.
Those experiences, she said,
helped her to develop a strong
connection with agriculture.
“I just have such an apprecia-
tion for the hard work these men
and women dedicate themselves
to every single day,” Dennee said
in an interview with the Capital
Press.
Before going to work for the
Dairy Farmers Association, Den-
nee was a top official for the
Oregon wheat industry based in
Pendleton. She spent 10 years as
executive director of the Oregon
Wheat Growers League, eventu-
ally stepping down in 2010.
Six years ago, Dennee moved
from Eastern Oregon to the Wil-
lamette Valley with her husband,
Michael.
In February 2015, Dennee was
hired by the Oregon Dairy Farm-
ers Association, placing her back
at the Capitol.
As Dennee explains, dairy
farmers and ranchers are closely
linked in animal agriculture, giv-
ing her an advanced understand-
ing producers’ needs. For exam-
ple, dairy cows that are at the end
of their lifespan might go to meat
processing, and male calves may
also be sent to a ranch or feedlot.
“Dairy and beef, we’re one
in the same,” Dennee said. “We
work very closely together on
many of the same issues.”
With the OCA, Dennee said
she is looking forward to devel-
oping a new strategic plan with
the association’s leaders, looking
three to five years into the future.
“We have a lot of work to do,
always, in agriculture,” she said.
“We really find ourselves in this
place where consumers have
a deep desire to be connected.
We have to find a way to con-
nect them back to our ranching
community.”
Washington Cattlemen’s Association hires new executive vice president
ern Cattle
Raisers for a
year.
H e r
husband,
Micah, also
has a new
job teach-
ing at Seat-
tle Pacific
ern Texas. Her particular
interests are replacement
heifer selection and heifer
development.
House and the associa-
tion’s leadership will advo-
cate for ranchers in Olympia
and in the marketplace.
“Farmers and ranch-
ers are the best stewards of
those landscapes, and we
want to make sure they’re
incentivized to keep doing
what they’re doing ... to
keep producing a healthy,
affordable domestic food
supply,” she said.
“The great thing about
Ashley is that right away
when you meet her, you
feel like you’re talking to a
friend,” said Mark Streuli,
the association’s lobbyist.
“The WCA Board noticed
right away that her passion
and enthusiasm for the cattle
industry really came through
in her interview. She backed
that up with experience and
leadership in association
management.”
House welcomes the
opportunity to hear from the
state’s ranchers.
“I love the opportunity
to learn from anybody who
has something that they find
of particular value or inter-
est,” she said. “I just really
have a voracious appetite for
learning and I’d love to make
connections.”
House replaces Ellensburg
rancher Danny DeFranco,
who resigned earlier this year
to focus on other opportuni-
ties. DeFranco started in May
2019.
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University.
“I told my Texas guys, ‘I
love you guys and I love rep-
resenting you but if I want to
stay married, I guess I’ve got
to move, too,’” House said
Ashley
House
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ELLENSBURG, Wash.
— Ashley House is the new
executive vice president of
the Washington Cattlemen’s
Association.
She spoke with the Capi-
tal Press on her first day, Aug.
18.
House moved to Wash-
ington from Fort Worth,
Texas, where she was direc-
tor of leader engagement for
the Texas and Southwest-
with a laugh.
She will commute to
Ellensburg from Seattle.
House said she was drawn
to the state’s strong legacy of
farming and ranching.
She said she is honored to
represent ranchers.
“I’ve been described
before as an ag devotee, and
I wear that title with pride,”
she said. “I love going to bat
for farmers and ranchers, and
for production agriculture.”
House grew up on a cow-
calf operation in south-
By MATTHEW WEAVER
Capital Press
