January 8, 2025 Darin # Up to $20,000 Offered for Information on Wolf Killings in Washington State
(Olympia, WA) Conservation advocates and a federal wildlife agency are offering $20,000 for information on each of three recent wolf poaching incidents in Washington.
Since October, three gray wolves have been illegally killed in Klickitat and Okanogan counties. Gray wolves are considered endangered under state law and federally protected in the western two-thirds of the state, including Klickitat and Okanogan counties.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity are both offering $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction for each case.
“I’m so saddened by the illegal killings of yet more Washington wolves, which add to the enormous spike in human-caused wolf mortality here in recent years,” said Amaroq Weiss, senior wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These beautiful animals didn’t deserve to die this way, and whoever killed them should face the full force of the law.”