GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Rewards totaling $10,000 are being offered for information in the killing of a federally protected wolf in northeastern Oregon.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service announced Friday it is offering $2,500 and a coalition of conservation groups is putting up $7,500.
The wolf was a 2-year-old male from the Wenaha pack and had been captured and fitted with a radio tracking collar in August.
It was found dead Sept. 30 on the Umatilla National Forest.
There is still no official cause of death. The wolf is being sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland for a necropsy.
