Predator animals are crazy with hunger by the time they are killing livestock. They come out of the wild and brave proximity to humans because hunger becomes greater than the fear of people, and they have reduced available prey in their preferred habitat.
I would not expect more than marginal success with this. A rancher should be able to shoot wolves that range to close to livestock. Keeping the wolf population in the uninhabited areas and killing those pushed out toward human settlement is not unreasonable.
People who make these policies don't have wolves for neighbors.
You’re correct. However, the city folk of Colorado (those living on the front range, opposite side of the continental divide from where the wolves were released) voted to reintroduce wolves and place them west of the Continental Divide. The law prevents ranchers from being compensated for their lost livestock unless they use all non lethal hazing methods set out by the state. Most of the hazing methods are not effective, but the state makes them do it and prove that they have or they don’t get paid for animals lost. And it’s still against state and federal law to kill wolves (endangered species).
You can imagine the frustration of the people who have to live with the insane policies of the libs living in Denver and Boulder who will never be impacted by those policies.
Now the libs want to reintroduce wolverines.
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