From the aticle they're not feeling the full effects by a long shot. Their taxes are being used to pay compensation for wolf kills, from the article that's the

From the aticle they're not feeling the full effects by a long shot. Their taxes are being used to pay compensation for wolf kills, from the article that's the price of a single ungrown calf. The cost to the rancher is, again according to the article, the loss of the full grown cow the calf would grow to AND a reduction (10% ?) in birth numbers and calf weights in the herd overall which witnessed the wolf attack on the calf. The birth reductions and weight numbers come from agricultural stats which ranchers and farmers keep these past decades, it's a data driven business, and we can hope these are accurately reported. These claims are being made but they're apparently swamping the compensation fund setup. Perhaps if they want healthy rivers with more plant growth then they might achieve this by hunting more elk, even using elk bounties, rather than wolves that harrass and stress the herds.