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County okays five-year agreements letting state agriculture staff trap beaver and address wolf depredations on county lands
Summary
Pine County approved a five-year work initiation document (WID) with the Department of Agriculture to allow agency staff to trap beaver and respond to verified wolf depredation on county-owned properties without seeking separate permission for each incident; the WID is nonbinding and renewable every five years.
A Department of Agriculture representative asked commissioners to approve a five-year work initiation document (WID) to allow agency personnel to address beaver and wolf depredation on Pine County-owned properties without requiring a separate permission for every incident. The speaker said the WIDs speed response times for verified depredations and can also be used for contracted research such as radio-collaring wolves for monitoring. "So that's what this agreement would do is just give us permission to work on county property and help avoid time bottlenecks as far as our response to the depredations," the presenter said.
Board members questioned form details (the template lists 1,000 acres as a placeholder) and asked about typical activity; the presenter said a 15-year quick search showed roughly 320 wolves and about 350 beaver trapped in Pine County since 2010. Commissioners approved the WID and the associated addendum authorizing the listed trapping and research tools, with signatures on both pages required to finalize the county agreement.
