WolVes, wool imports, diseases worry sheep
PORTLAND, Ore. - Wolves,
sheep health and South American
imports were three items of major
concern here at the recently
completed annual meeting of the
National Wool Growers
Association in Portland, Oregon.
Modifications of a plan to turn
wolves loose on specified areas of
the western mountains were
requested by the sheep producers
after discussion on the plan with
Bart O’Gara of the Umversrty of
Montana at Missoula. The sheep
growers will ask the Department
of Interior to remove the wolf from
the endangered species list before
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the restocking plan is fully im- South American wool imports ticularly in blue tongue and foot
plemented. also received intense consideration rot. Bud Turner of Texas, who
John Faulkner of Gooding, by delegates to the 117th meeting chairs the association’s Animal
Idaho, who serves as chairman of of the Wool Growers Association. Health Committee, reported that
the . NWGA Environment Com- The sheep producers asked their economic losses to the industry
mittee, explained that a wolf- leadership to investigate possible f ro m unbeatable infections are
string outside of his protected area duties or other tariff action against
couldn’t be controlled. “If they wool from South America that has
went on a sheep-killing rampage flooded the U.S. market this past
you couldn’t touch them,” year. Low prices and low demand
Faulkner pointed out, “because lor domestically produced medium
they are classified as endangered, grade wools were attributed by the
On the other hand, if they were growers to a substantial increase
declassified (removed from the in imports,
endangered list), we could control The National Association will
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