Oregon’s gray wolves prey on cattle sporadically. But earlier this year, Union County rancher Coleman Lay lost his dog, Dodge, to state-protected wolves.
MEDICAL SPRINGS, Ore. — In 2008, gray wolves returned to Oregon — more than 60 years after the last one was shot and killed for a bounty. The predators weren’t shipped in, but allowed to wander over from neighboring Idaho, protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Just three years later, the federal government determined that enough gray wolves had returned to eastern Oregon that they could be removed from ESA protections there. And in 2015, Oregon took wolves off the state endangered species
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