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blamed a rancher in the area for not doing more to protect his cattle.”

I would love to hear the members of this conservation group explain just exactly how one protects cattle from wolves. Maybe the cattle need to spend more time at the gun range or perhaps the ranchers can just spray the cattle with wolf repellant.

At least we can eat beef. Maybe we should just start wearing fur coats made out of grey wolf pelts again.

[Nailbiter]

Cow with guns- :) pretty soon they will have to arm the wolves to make sides even then we are off to arms race

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I would love to hear the members of this conservation group explain just exactly how one protects cattle from wolves.

Here in Idaho the best way we've found is a suppressed AR-15.

That said, there're still a lot of ranchers having to file claims for losses in cattle and especially sheep. Hopefully the wolf hunt will help out some.

Speaking of which:

Open season, baby! Til March 31 2013. 19 taken so far (season opened August 30). Last year 255 were shot, another 124 trapped. Which is funny, because most people I meet think that there's less than 100 total in the state. I guess they're stuck in 1998 or something.

I think Idaho's got the right idea for wolves in another way: fund their management by selling wolf tags to hunters, who can also manage them in a very direct way.

[gunner03]

I live in the area, and the tree huggers are trying to prevent the ranchers from using Fed. or state lands for open range. I heard one across the road from me the other night, getting more and more.