Yep. We’re having a lot of predation in northern Wisconsin, too.
Beau had a wolf tag this year (2nd year they’ve allowed us to hunt them in WI) but he only saw two on the way up, and didn’t see any on the ground once he was there.
However, over 200 have been culled. It’s a start. They are BEAUTIFUL animals, and I am truly a Canine Obsessed-type, but even the coyotes around my farm are quite bold and make me nervous sometimes for my chickens and dogs.
Wolves in Russia educates the reader with spine-tingling, real life tragedies of wolf attacks on humans, numbering into the thousands, as well as pets, livestock and wild animals. Graves shares the seemingly unending accounts of poor and unprotected Russian peasants being subjected to attacks by wolves and terrified in the knowledge that wolves carry disease
http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/01/12/wolves-in-russia-anxiety-through-the-ages-2/