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State kills three Baker County wolves
Breeding male from
Lookout Mountain
Pack killed in Sept. 17
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life employees, firing from
a helicopter, shot and killed
three wolves from the Look-
out Mountain Pack in east-
ern Baker County Friday,
Sept. 17, including the pack’s
breeding male.
In addition to the breed-
ing male, ODFW employees
killed a yearling male, born
in the spring of 2020, and a
5-month-old pup from the
pack’s spring 2021 litter of
seven.
The wolves were killed the
day after ODFW announced
that the agency intended to
kill up to four wolves from
the pack, which has killed
at least six head of cattle,
and injured two others, since
mid July.
According to a press
release from ODFW, agency
employees saw six wolves
during the Friday helicopter
flight.
The three wolves that were
killed were near a dead calf,
and on private land. ODFW
biologists are investigating
to determine whether wolves
killed the calf.
“Initial indications point
Contributed photo/Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
A trail cam photo from May 30 of one of the two yearling wolves in the Lookout Mountain pack.
to another depredation” by
wolves, according to the press
release.
ODFW announced on
Sept. 16 that agency work-
ers intended to kill up to four
wolves from pack, including
the breeding male. ODFW is
not targeting the pack’s breed-
ing female. In addition, four
ranchers who have lost cat-
tle to the pack are authorized
to kill up to two other wolves
total.
ODFW estimates the pack
consisted of nine wolves, a
count prior to the Sept. 17 kill-
ing of three wolves.
ODFW employees killed
two other pups from the 2021
litter on Aug. 1.
By targeting the breeding
male, ODFW hopes to still
allow the breeding female to
raise any remaining juveniles.
Reducing the number of juve-
niles the breeding female will
need to feed increases the like-
lihood that some will survive,
according to a press release
from the agency.
The group Defenders of
Wildlife criticized ODFW’s
decision to kill the wolves.
“Whenever wolves are put
on the chopping block, it is a
tragedy,” said Sristi Kamal,
senior northwest representa-
tive for Defenders of Wild-
life. “Lethal control is never
a long-term solution and any
pups that will be killed under
these permits did not even par-
ticipate in the hunts. There are
better solutions than just kill-
ing wolves to cultivate social
acceptance. Investments in
proactive non-lethal efforts
can do much more for promot-
ing coexistence.”
Baker County Sheriff Tra-
vis Ash sent a letter to ODFW
Director Curt Melcher on
Sept. 13 asking the state to kill
the entire Lookout Mountain
Pack and relieve the burden
on ranchers in the area.
Four ranchers have lost
cattle to the Lookout Moun-
tain pack.
“The financial burden,
physical strain and exhaustion
they are going through in what
has become a fruitless effort to
keep the Lookout Mountain
Pack from killing their ani-
mals is extreme,” Ash wrote.
“I believe the most humane
way of dealing with this prob-
lem wolf pack is to remove
the adult breeding pair that are
teaching the negative learned
behavior of targeting cattle to
their offspring.”
Roblyn Brown, ODFW’s
state wolf coordinator, agreed
with Ash that the Lookout
Mountain wolves have shown
a preference for cattle over elk
and deer.
“This pack has made a shift
in their behavior,” Brown said
in a press release. “Instead of
the occasional opportunistic
killing of a vulnerable calf,
now they are targeting live-
stock despite the high num-
bers of elk and deer in the area
where the depredations have
occurred and extensive human
presence to haze wolves.”
Survey: Politics plays role in vaccination rates
One in five Oregonians not planning
to get vaccinated against COVID-19,
according to new survey
Gov. Kate Brown’s outdoor
masking requirement. The
survey found that the most-
trusted source of information
no matter political affiliation
was scientists and doctors.
“We hope that it will help
inform Oregonians about how
other people that live in their
state feel, but that most of
them are not so different from
you and have a lot of the same
thoughts, feelings and con-
cerns that you do,” Amaury
Vogel, associate executive
director of the Oregon Values
and Beliefs Center, said of the
survey.
“It’s helpful for Oregonians
to know what else other peo-
ple are thinking too, because
sometimes the loudest voices
are the ones that dominate the
conversation,” Vogel added.
Few Oregonians expressed
initial hesitancy with wanting
to get the vaccine, with 62%
of respondents saying they got
vaccinated as soon they could.
An additional 17% said they
were initially skeptical but
have or will soon get vacci-
nated, while 21% said vacci-
nation was not for them.
Oregon
respondents
younger than 45 are the most
By ALEXANDRA SKORES
The Oregonian
PORTLAND — One in
five Oregon adults say they
are not planning to get vac-
cinated against COVID-19,
according to a new survey of
Oregonians by the Oregon
Values and Beliefs Center.
This population tends
to be under the age of 55,
socially and ideologically
conservative, with no college
degree and living in rural or
rural-to-suburban parts of the
state.
The survey underscores
how politics has become one
of the leading indicators of
vaccination rates in a highly
polarized environment. Just
one in 25 registered Demo-
crats reported that the vaccine
was “not for me,” according
to the survey of 1,154 Oregon
adults, versus more than one
in three Republicans and more
than one in four independent
or other voters.
The Oregon Values and
Belief Center, an independent,
nonprofit research firm, con-
ducted the polling Aug. 9-17,
before full approval to the
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and
Alex Wittwer/The Observer, File
Shannon White, regional testing liason for Grand Ronde Hospital gives directions to Doug Ross for
a self-administered COVID-19 test in the Bi-Mart parking lot in La Grande on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021.
likely to report warming to
vaccinations, alongside peo-
ple of color, social moderates
and people with a high school
degree or less.
A majority of Oregon
adults support employers
being able to require vacci-
nations among employees.
Fully 70% of respondents
said they think medical facil-
ities, including nursing homes
and assisted living facilities,
should be allowed to require
employee vaccinations. For
all employers, the rate of sup-
port for allowing required
employee vaccinations was
slightly lower, at 66%.
COVID-19 vaccinations
are not yet available for chil-
dren 11 and younger, but 56%
of surveyed parents with kids
in that age group said they
would have their child inoc-
ulated if a federally approved
vaccine was available today.
One third of respondents said
they would not. Parents with
college degrees were far more
likely to say they would vacci-
nate their children.
The survey also looked at
where Oregonians get vital
information about things
such as COVID-19. The No.
1 trusted source? The front-
line workers relaying the
information.
Some 80% of respondents
said they trusted scientists and
doctors, far higher than the
60% rate for science agencies.
Below scientists and agen-
cies, media organizations
came into play for varying
demographics of respondents.
Roughly half of college-ed-
ucated respondents trusted
National Public Radio or simi-
lar programing, while roughly
half of people with high school
educations or less trusted fam-
ily and friends.
Meanwhile, respondents
were asked to categorize
COVID-19 as a fact, belief,
concept or fiction. Fully 6% of
respondents said it was fiction,
with nearly all of those people
lacking a college degree.
Five out of six Oregonians
have experienced negative
physical or emotional impacts
of COVID-19. Fully 40% said
those impacts were slight,
27% said they were signifi-
cant and 17% said they were
dramatic.
Compared to problems of
the day — such as climate
change, racial discrimination
and forest fires — respon-
dents expressed optimism
that humans will solve com-
municable diseases such as
COVID-19. Just over half said
there’s a good chance or cer-
tainty it can be solved, roughly
equal to the other most opti-
mistic view, on voting rights
and secure elections.
Oregonians wanting to par-
ticipate in a September survey
can sign up to join the Ore-
gon Values and Beliefs Cen-
ter panel.
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