Unprecedented livestock attacks by one California wolf pack cost $2.6 million
From TheSacramentoBee:
The unprecedented reliance of a single Sierra Valley wolf pack on livestock for food cost local ranchers and the state of California at least $2.6 million over a roughly six-month period last year, according to researchers at UC Davis .
The Beyem Seyo pack hunted at least 92 calves and cows from late March through early October, costing ranchers $235,000 in livestock losses and the state more than $2 million in intervention costs, economist Tina Saitone and researcher Tracy Schohr said in the university’s quarterly agricultural economics update on Friday. If another two dozen cattle are confirmed to have been killed by wolves also, the livestock losses would rise to about $300,000, they said.
