Ranching with Wolves

Cattle are an essential component of wolf diet and supports wolf population growth and conservation -Ken Tate

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife State Wolf Coordinator, Axel Honnicutt started the third session of the Rustici Rangeland Science Symposium with a status update of conservation efforts and the Gray Wolf population. Visit and subscribe to the CDFW Gray Wolf Updates here.

Drs. Tina Saitone and Ken Tate, presented their findings from a comprehensive research program investigating impacts of expanding wolf populations on California ranches. They further detailed the scope of wolf-livestock conflict, the composition of wolf diet in the study area, and quantified the indirect and direct costs of a wolf predation on cattle production.

Download the full Saitone/Tate presentation here