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Article: Top 10 Reasons to Support Rancher Compensation.(gray wolf program)
- Article from:
- Endangered Species Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
- Author:
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During the past decade, a lot of people have had a lot to say about gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the American West. Wolf advocates have petitioned. Scientists have testified. Ranchers have protested, newspapers have editorialized, and legislators have debated.
Through the ebb and flow of 10 years of controversy, there's been one constant: When a rancher has lost livestock to wolves, an independent conservation organization--Defenders of Wildlife--has directly reimbursed the rancher for the market value.
This straightforward economic transaction is widely credited with bringing resolution to the struggle over reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone and ...