Ranchers get $139,000 for livestock killed by wolves, that was in 2004
While the wolf kills get a lot of attention, Stone noted they amount to a tiny fraction of the sheep and cattle killed by predators each year. In Montana, for example, coyotes killed 17,700 sheep and lambs in 2003, according to the Montana Agriculture Statistics Service, which polls ranchers every year.
Ranchers in that survey blamed wolves for 500 dead sheep and lambs, although just 210 were listed as confirmed or probable wolf kills by the federal government.
A lot of smoke and no fire!!!http://www.hpj.com/archives/2005/jan05/jan10/Ranchersget139000forlivesto.CFM
The coyotes need to die too.
The worst beating I ever got as a child was for failing to shoot a coyote.