We can shoot predators here but you need a hunting license and then a “nuisance” license. Son shoots. I’ve never fired a gun. Oh, his wife shoots too.
We live just a few hundred yards from BLM and there are bears and cougars as well, so if anyone wants to have livestock they need good fences and dogs, and we have neither.
The wild animals lived here first, this valley is mostly wild and forested.