Congress recently passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. One key portion of the act is the “Wolf Livestock Loss Demonstration Project”. This is basically a wordy way of saying that the U.S. government plans to allocate 5 million dollars over the next five years to compensate livestock producers for livestock that is lost due to predatory acts of wolves. The act also will give some funds to help farmers and Indian tribes to use non-lethal means of deterring wolves from their lands, in an attempt to preserve the gray wolf population within the United States.
If managed correctly, this act could save many wolves in America from being gunned down do to their predatory actions. However, there is some concern that the act will lead to farmers baiting their livestock, so that wolves will attack them, and allow the farmers to get a larger return on the cattle than they would within the free market.
It should be interesting to see how this plays out, considering how recent government plans have ran astray, hopefully this act ends up working out for the better, and wolf populations will continue to increase in North America.
Creddit to : animalsndanger.com
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