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WDFW presents 2025 Wolf Report; WAG debates depredation counts, monitoring and post‑delisting planning
Summary
DFW summarized 2025 wolf population counts, monitoring methods and removals; WAG members pressed the department on depredation confirmation counts, producer under‑reporting, collaring availability, and began visioning post‑delisting management including monitoring, communications and legal classification scenarios.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife presented its 2025 Wolf Report to the Wolf Advisory Group and used the session to begin a structured discussion about post‑delisting management. The report summarized statewide pack distribution, breeding‑pair definitions, monitoring methods, collaring efforts and documented mortalities for the 2025 calendar year.
Presenting staff emphasized the technical definitions used in the report: a "pack" is two or more wolves traveling together in winter and a "breeding pair" requires at least two adults and two pups surviving through December 31. The report uses a minimum‑count method plus a 12.5% multiplier to estimate unpaired wolves. The presenter noted Washington has met several delisting thresholds statewide but that the South Cascades recovery area still lacks the required breeding‑pair numbers.
The presentation listed 28 documented mortalities in 2025—more than 90%…
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