Last year, the state of Washington murdered an entire pack of wolves because a rancher took his cattle to public land, right beside their den to graze. Naturally, he lost one. It became a battle between animal rights activists and ranchers, and sadly the lazy ranchers won. (Is it obvious what side I'm on yet? haha)
History repeats itself, sadly, and its the wolves who end up suffering. Humans are too prideful to look at themselves, and wonder what WE are doing wrong, so instead we blame the animals. Wolves are a natural, and valuable part of the ecosystem and in my opinion ranchers need to keep their cattle, and livestock better secure and protected. Take note from other countries and perhaps get some guard dogs. The Maremma Sheepdog LGD, the Great Pyrenees, the Kazakh shepherd, the The Komondor all dogs who are literally BRED to be raised with a herd of livestock, and protect and deter predators from hunting and killing them.
People need to think more about what THEY can do to help secure their own livestock, instead of eradicating an animal because they're quite frankly too lazy to figure out an alternative. Look at what happened to Yellowstone? Wolves HAD to be re-introduced because deer were destroying everything. Like I said, history sadly repeats itself.
