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.