Wolves will follow elk onto ranches, but mostly into timbered areas, where the wolves aren't nearly as likely to be shot at. But they don't usually follow elk onto wide-open hayfields.
I hunted a local ranch a couple years ago where a pack of wolves had taken up residence, and actually ran into them one day when we were driving a pickup along a road through some timber toward a dead elk one of us had killed that morning. But the pack never showed up on a bottomland hayfield, or even in an open park in the mountains--and according to the rancher they ate more cattle than elk, because cattle are easier to catch.
