Cattle ranchers in Oregon, Colorado, and Wisconsin say gray wolf populations have bounced back, but current federal law leaves them with few options when wolves kill livestock.
A pair of UC Davis studies looked at what wolves are actually eating in northeastern California and how nearby cattle are holding up — the short answer is cattle show up often on the menu, and the herds are noticeably stressed.
State wildlife officials have decided to remove one or two wolves from the Tucannon pack in southeast Washington after they kept attacking livestock, despite ranchers' nonlethal efforts to protect their herds.