Paying the ranchers for animals lost to predation, is what I mean. A side of beef is half a cow. Usually a dressed side, all fees included, runs about a thousa

Paying the ranchers for animals lost to predation, is what I mean. A side of beef is half a cow. Usually a dressed side, all fees included, runs about a thousand dollars, a little more or less depending on who you get it from, when, how, etc. That's the consumer price, so a wholesaler probably gets less on a commercial sale, but if we're already (rightly imo) supporting the return of predator species to their ancestral habitats, paying ranchers a couple grand per wolf-killed animal doesn't strike me as unreasonable. Of course, they'll shoot wolves anyway, every chance they get.