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Panel moves RS 31921 to print to create depredation appeals board for wildlife kills
Summary
The committee voted to send RS 31921 to print. The request would authorize a Depredating Wildlife Appeals Board to review Wildlife Services' determinations of depredation and potentially alter confirmed/probable findings that affect reimbursement and control actions.
The Resources & Environment Committee voted to send RS 31921 to print after testimony that the request would create a Depredating Wildlife Appeals Board to review federal Wildlife Services determinations of livestock kills by wolves, bears and mountain lions.
Dexter Lake, representing the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, told the committee that currently Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is the state's only authorized investigator for suspected depredations. He said the federal agency often focuses on examination of the carcass and that, if a producer does not receive a "confirmed depredation"…
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