Cost of California Wolf Pack-Livestock Conflict
From MorninAGClips.com:
DAVIS, Calif. — Nearly a decade after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed the state’s first wolf pack, the rural community in Sierra Valley, California, faced unprecedented challenges when the Beyem Seyo wolf pack began to regularly attack and kill domestic livestock.
Despite extensive efforts at non-lethal deterrence, the pack became so dependent on cattle as a food source that several members of the pack were ultimately euthanized in October 2025. A new study out of UC Davis analyzed the costs associated with these wolf attacks and found that, when combining the costs of livestock losses and interventions aimed at deterring further depredations (the injuring or killing of livestock by wolves), the economic toll over seven months reached at least $2.6 million.
