French shepherds are claiming 2,500 lost sheep, and thats not bad going for 100 wolves ).
My life those must be some mighty big and hungry wolves. 25 each per year?
I wonder how many are lost to stray domestic dogs chasing them to exhaustion? A whole flock can go from that in very little time.
As for ranchers, well they are hardly after a completely natural landscape and flora, are they? Bear in mind I'm from a farming family.