"Six years after the first wolves were released in Idaho, the wolf population has expanded to around 200 wolves and 17 documented packs."(1)

"As the wolf population continues to make progress towards recovery, the greatest challenge of the recovery program is to effectively address social concerns surrounding wolf recovery by reducing human-wolf conflicts."(1)

"However, agency control is reactive providing effective immediate relief once wolf depredations have occurred, but does little to deter wolf depredations before they happen and offers no long term resolution in chronic depredation areas. Even with the elimination of an entire pack, new wolves rapidly settle into the vacated territory, perpetuating the potential for continued livestock depredations and conflict."(1)

"Management tools are classified into five categories: 1) outreach; 2) compensation; 3) compatible husbandry practices and operations; 4) non-lethal aversive wolf deterrents; and 5) long-term remedies."(3)

"We are proposing to provide livestock producer incentives to voluntarily make simple modifications to traditional animal husbandry practices and ranching operations that will reduce wolf attractants and deter wolf-livestock interactions. Examples include bone yard management, increasing rider and herder presence on range, maximizing calf weights before turnout, minimizing calving on allotments, maintaining clean camps, increasing number of guardian dogs, increasing herd and band integrity, maintaining bedding grounds close to camp, practicing grazing patterns and pasture rotations to minimize wolf-livestock interactions, and providing riders and herders with effective wolf harassment techniques."(3)

"Examples [of long-term solutions] include conservation easements, guaranteed up-front compensation, allotment retirement, and private land acquisition."(4)