ENDANGERED SPECIES -- Oregon has released its draft 2014 Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Annual Report and it's available online.

The report, required by the federal government for states dealing with gray wolf recovery, includes the 2014 update for Oregon’s Wolf Population.

• Nine wolf packs and six new pairs of wolves were documented in Oregon in 2014.
• Oregon’s minimum known wolf population at the end of 2014 was 77 wolves, including eight breeding pairs.

At the end of 2013, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials estimated a minimum of 64 wolves in the state in eight packs including four breeding pairs.

Washington is still working on its 2014 surveys and report.  Officials say lack of snow for tracking and boosting aerial surveys has made it more difficult than usual to evaluate the state's wolf population.

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