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Not a lot in the news with CA wolves. Cattle ranchers have been dealing with wolf depredation for awhile. The state is riding on the coattails of the reintroduction. No plan, no recourse for stock loss! The attitude is its nature. This doesn’t even begin to address the affect on the miss managed game population of the state. These pics are from a trail cam on my wife’s friend cattle ranch in northern CA. No need to expound on what a shiet hole CA. We all know.

Hope they enjoy them

No doubt, many of the ignorant will!

Those wolves will feed on cattle and the like. There aren't many deer left; they let the mountains lions eat them all.

This state could use lots of improvements.

Tree huggers.

Looks like lower elevation. A clue on whereabouts?

I've heard folks say that it is easier to shoot wolves than it is to shoot coyotes.

Why would a rancher post those pics publicly?

You don't think they would put them in the Buttes do you?

My thought was the Northeast deer herd “Devils Garden “ and the northeast elk herd that the state spent so much time to reintroduce will become nonexistent.

You know California and it's law's have [bleep] America, so enjoy the wo!VES

I know guys in Montana, say the wolves there in the N/W corner of the state are very smart.

Tehama foothills. Lower elevation. No doubt traveled through higher country to get there.

There are wolves in 40 of the 50 states, it's a long term plan and it will work.

Yep, had one on our ranch last year, first wolf I've seen. It was one from Oregon that came down, ended up back in Oregon and got killed up there.

The last part of that post makes it a good story. There needs to be more feel good stories like that.

The feds catch, tag, collar and track everyone one of them can.

All part of the plan, no doubt.

It's in the news.

https://www.redding.com/story/news/...ed-in-eastern-tehama-county/70094162007/

About where I figured, just from the terrain and valley oaks.

One got whacked by a car last year or year before all the way down in Ventura county, so Tehama is not a stretch of the imagination whatsoever.

People sure get enamored with Apex predators. In a Minnesota the people want a forever ban on harming wolves. These are the people who don’t live up here in wolf country and have no clue how unmanaged wolf populations can damage the ecosystem. Same folks who visit up here and maybe 1 in 5000(?) will actually see a wolf.
They all think it’s going to be like Yellowstone with happy, bounding, playing, strings of multi colored wolves loping along in front of them. Never mind what mayhem they cause other game populations.

I’ve helped here in northern MN with problem wolves and I can say from that side of things the ranchers that lose livestock never get fairly compensated in the end. I suggested long ago they just put up towers every so many square miles with speakers and every night at sundown play a few wolf howls for the visitors. It will be the closest to wild wolves the vast majority will ever get.

Good luck in California hopefully your people have more brains in managing wolves than the idiots in Minnesota.

Osky