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USDA Wildlife Services requests $5,000 from Bonner County to fund local depredation response
Summary
A USDA Wildlife Services county representative asked Bonner County officials for $5,000 in operating support and described the agency’s local work on livestock depredation, beaver removal and other wildlife conflicts; the meeting record does not include a commission decision.
At a Bonner County meeting, a county representative for USDA Wildlife Services described the program’s local activities and asked county officials to increase a routine contribution to $5,000 for the coming year.
The request matters because the county contribution helps fund a federal wildlife specialist’s local response to livestock depredation, beaver-related road and culvert work, and preventive trapping. The representative told commissioners that the program is funded from multiple sources — federal and state funds, livestock head/wool taxes and county contributions — and that the county share helps cover a local district position’s wages, vehicle and fuel costs.
The county representative said the program “stays within our district,” noting the specialist travels widely and responds to calls across several northern counties. The representative added,…
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