As expected, after the initial release of the first 10 wolves in December of 2023, there has not been protection for any livestock producers. Mitigation claims have exceeded $500,000, which the state is struggling to find funding to pay because the mitigation fund only has $350,000 in it. CPW has tried translocating some of the wolves, which has obviously been unsuccessful. Now CPW’s answer is that if they bring in more wolves (which was 15 additional wolves brought in from British Columbia) to bolster the packs, they will now have the ability to target more adult elk instead of calf elk. Anyone with a drop of brain at all has to be thinking that this is the dumbest idea that was ever dreamed up by a round table of “wildlife specialists” who have no idea or sense of reality. So far, every single rancher and person who voted against the wolf supplementation has been vindicated. The Shangri-La place that was promised by wolf lobbyists that was going to have wolves only eating out the sick and dying wildlife that “in turn would eliminate disease within the rivers” turns out to be what every sane person with a bit of common sense said it was going to be, BS!