Greetings From the Wild Side

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USDA – Wildlife Services (WS) is pleased to announce that Kevin Christensen has been selected as the new State Director of the Oregon program. Kevin has been with Wildlife Services for 26 years, the last 17 as the Assistant State Director in Oregon. “I am very grateful for the support and encouragement from the field, and from our many cooperators and friends that we work with, and I’m committed to supporting our mission to provide quality public service.”

WS has the opportunity to interact with a lot of individuals statewide, providing expertise and proven field experience to help solve and mitigate conflicts with wildlife. In federal fiscal year 2023, WS made over 13,800 responses to the public.  These responses covered many types of specific resources and included 9,023 for agricultural resources, 3,165 protecting property, 2,029 related to human health and safety, and 836 for natural resources.  

We recently posted a video on the USDA APHIS YouTube channel: “Using Drones to Haze Wolves.” This short video highlights some of the work being done by our WS staff to look at testing and refining various non-lethal methods, including drones, for mitigating wolf conflicts, with the goal of determining times and or locations where tools may be effective in helping to stop or mitigate depredation on livestock.    

Our employees are dedicated to providing support and solutions for your wildlife conflicts.  If you need help with conflicts from predatory animals, please give us a call.