Oregon lawmaker wants state to move road-kill carcasses to wolf country

Lawmakers in Oregon are considering a bill that would require state transportation workers to move roadkill from the side of the road to wolf country, a move intended to protect ranchers from having wolves on their property endangering their livestock, and to protect wolves from being killed by the ranchers, reports Mitch Lies for Capital Press.

The bill was introduced by Rep. Bob Jenson, R-Pendleton, who said that because the Department of Transportation was leaving animal carcasses to rot near where cattle and sheep graze, ranchers' efforts at wolf control were being undermined, reports Lies. Jenson said, "The net effect is ODOT is doing what ranchers are prohibited from doing, which is, in a sense, baiting wolves." (Read more)