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Wildlife gets a focus in Oregon's long legislative session
Wildlife gets a focus in Oregon's long legislative session

For years, both the beaver and the wolf have been hot topics amongst landowners, ranchers, forest managers, and conservationists as both have endured attempts to eradicate or greatly diminish their existence from private lands for decades, but those tides are shifting as perspectives are expanding on wild spaces being for all life—not just human life—and how some wildlife species could actually help us.

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Wildlife Advocacy
Wildlife Advocacy

Part of our work at KS Wild is to track management decisions by the US Fish and Wildlife service to list at-risk species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. In continuing a 22-year battle to protect their declining populations, we filed lawsuit with three of our conservation allies to list the Pacific fisher. Other species we continue to fight for include the Siskiyou Mountain Salamander, the Wolverine and four species of Lamprey.

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Wolf OR-7 is a Father
Wolf OR-7 is a Father

Good news for wolves! The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported in June that Wolf OR-7 and his mate have at least two pups, seen peeking out from a log to the right. While OR-7’s female companion is not as well known, her untold story is just as miraculous.

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