Does the Interagency Field Team (IFT) investigate all wolf kills of cattle?
The IFT investigates all suspected or reported wolf depredations and wolf-human conflicts immediately and reports the results appropriately, in strict accordance with the Project’s Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) 11.0, Depredation on Domestic Livestock and Pets. SOP 11.0 directs WS IFT members to respond within 24 hours to each incident or allegation of wolf-livestock conflict, and other IFT members will provide assistance as requested, appropriate and/or necessary. Even before finalization of SOP 11.0, the Project’s 5-year review found the average IFT response time was less than 24 hours to arrive on scene of a reported depredation. Non-WS IFT members, with assistance from WS IFT members as available and appropriate, handle wolf-human conflicts involving attacks on pets or domestic animals, other than livestock, and other nuisance behavior as defined within SOP 13.0, Control of Mexican Wolves.
