Billboard Reminds Citizens Of Reward For Wolf Poaching

Conservationists and local advocates keep pressure on to find wolf killer.

A new roadside billboard outside of La Grande is asking citizens to help catch the person who shot and killed and endangered grey wolf this past fall.

The billboard features a picture of the male gray wolf, later found dead in the Umatilla National Forest.

Wally Sykes is the founder of Northeast Oregon Ecosystems, one of the groups that paid for the billboard.

He says the animal was the only wolf from the elusive Wenaha pack ever to be fitted with a radio-collar.

Wally Sykes: “We wanted to remind people that this wolf had been shot and that there is a reward.  No matter what you particularly think about wolves, to poach one is a crime.”

Sykes say there’s a $10,000 reward for information about the poaching.

Most of the money was put up by wildlife advocates throughout the region. Sykes says anyone with information about the poaching should contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.