Oregon Senate passes bill to improve rules on livestock protection and loss-compensation
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The Oregon State Senate has passed a bill to tighten oversight of the Wolf Depredation Program and provide more compensation to farmers who lose livestock to wolf attacks.
"This is a way that you can reach back to those individual ranchers, to that community with a positive vote here today and say, ‘We recognize your loss,’" said Sen. Todd Nash, a chief sponsor of this bill.
The program, established in 2011, allows farmers and agricultural workers to apply for compensation when wolves attack, injure, or kill livestock or working animals. The bill received bipartisan support on the Senate floor, with only one lawmaker voting "no" on the measure. The newly passed bill seeks to revise the program by restricting compensation claims to only those animals confirmed to have been injured or killed by wolves and eliminating claims for missing animals. This change aims to prevent unverifiable claims and focus on confirmed damages.
"When we’re talking about compensation, there’s only one entity here that actually loses, and that’s the livestock owner," said Nash.
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