California wolves are on the comeback and eating cattle. Ranchers say, ‘Enough!’

Letters to the Editor: Despite trouble for ranchers, wolves are vital to keeping nature in balance

'Of course where people are living, working and farming, wolves often have a bad reputation,' writes one reader. 'But they're vital to a thriving ecosystem.'

California wolves are on the comeback and eating cattle. Ranchers say, ‘Enough!’

Ranchers in rural California live where two lofty and environmentally satisfying ideas collide: all-natural, free-range beef and the government-assisted return of a predator our ancestors hunted to near extinction.

California wolves are on the comeback and eating cattle: Ranchers say, 'Enough!'

In far Northern California, beneath a towering mountain ridge still covered in April snow, one of the state's last cowboys stood in the tall green grass of a pasture he tends, describing what he sees as the one blight on this otherwise perfect landscape: wolves.

Letters to the Editor: Regardless of bother for ranchers, wolves are important to retaining nature in stability

To the editor: Wolves are hardly an outdated nemesis (“Lovely, lethal: Wolves stalk rural California,” April 21). They’re the animals that hold different wild animals in examine and in stability. They assist to guard what little remaining wilderness we’ve got left and hold it wild and prospering. In fact the place persons are dwelling, working and farming, wolves usually have a nasty status. However they’re important to a thriving ecosystem. Bio…

🐻 Wild predators make successful comeback in Europe

The number of wolves in Europe has increased by 35 percent to 23,000 individuals.The Iberian lynx, which 25 years ago had fewer than 100 individuals left, has now recovered and its status has changed from "critically endangered" to "vulnerable."Several predators show positive development - brown bears have increased by 17 percent to 20,500, Eurasian lynx by 12 percent to 9,400, and wolverines by 16 percent to 1,300 since 2016.Conservation measur…