“The ongoing saga playing out in the Kettle River Range is the posterchild of the contradiction between public values versus a private cattle business interest with all the privileges of below-cost U.S. Forest Service grazing lease fees of $1.35 per month for a cow and calf in the Colville National Forest. Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has spent millions of dollars to recover state-endangered gray wolf only to do an about face, repeatedly killing wolves for attacking cattle across tens of thousands of densely forested, rugged mountains – 70 percent of which was for one cattle business.”
Read the full op-ed by Tim Coleman for the Spokesman Review here: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/sep/16/timothy-coleman-wolves-the-victims-of-state-federa/