Recordings of emergency calls show Washington wildlife officials objected to an air rescue of a woman (salmon researcher) treed by wolves, or help from the Okanogan County sheriff.
She tried pepper spray and yelling (did not work) , the pack surrounded her, then she climbed a tree. She later climbed down, only to find the wolves still there. She scrambled back up the tree and called for rescue.. Government wildlife managers: No helicopter. Federally listed species. 3 WDFW personnel agree. ~ according to DNR’s call log.
Sheriff : We are more concerned for her life .. we do not know how safe she is. I don’t know how stout the tree is, and if the limbs will continue to hold her or how long she can hold on... Within a half hour, the woman was safe in the DNR helicopter.. The flight from Omak to the woman took 14 minutes.
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That is sickening. Poor woman. Shows what they think of human life...hmmm. Okanogan. Oh. Over past Twisp where firefighters died because they couldn’t take water from a salmon stream many years ago.
We left that state after 25 yrs and came to northern Mi.
It is glorious here. We love it!
We laugh because up in the UP DNR will find a shot wolf now and then, dead. No ones land.
So on the radio they will run these ads kind of asking for people to come forward...federal crime...blah blah.
There is no one here that is going to do that and most of us are glad someone got one.
Hate wolves.