Living with Wolves: The cost to ranchers
There were 367 confirmed wolf kills in Montana in 2009, and there are at least six so far this year. But for one long-time cattleman near Drummond, the cost of wolves runs much deeper than an occasional cow carcass.
It’s auction day on Ron Skinner’s ranch in Hall, where fellow ranchers bought 174 of his cattle, but it’s the money that got away that really hurts. “We had severe weight loss in calves that came out of wolf areas compared to calves where there are no wolves” Skinner explained.
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