RE: A wolves truce?!?
If you don't believe in science then you don't believe we have found cures for any of the diseases we have. You don't believe we can treat cancer in some people. You don't believe a little pill can get rid of a headache. Hell you don't believe in a common cough suppressant. You don't believe the engine in your truck that you bought within the last 5 years burns cleaner and more efficiently while giving you more power and better gas mileage. True science isn't the bible but hell only a fool completely ignores it. We might as well pick up our clubs and go back to the stone ages. No, I think some believe in science until it doesn't back up an opinion. If you do that you are making the same pitfall as those who mocked Columbus when they told him the world is flat. Looking back on that who ended up looking the fool, certainly not Columbus who thought the world was round. (He was right by the way.) Science itself is NEVER evil, it is only the truth. However you may use science for evil purposes like an atom bomb. That doesn't make the science evil anymore than a gun is evil for being used in a crime.
The FACT (not opinion) is wolves do not kill hundreds of livestock a day, or a week or even a month for that matter. Yes scientific data backs that up. Sure not all of wolf kills are reported but I think we've got a decent idea of what's happening. The rate which they kill does pose problems but not a worldwide hunger wave. "In the northern Rocky Mountains from 1997 to 1999, verified wolf losses amounted to .01 percent (1 in 10,000) of all sheep losses, and .03 percent (3 in 10,000) of all cattle losses." Whether you CHOOSE to believe or not the truth is out there and one day wolves will be back and someone will be right and someone will be wrong. Do you believe you will look a fool? If I'm wrong I will graciously admit it however I think the odds are stacked heavily in the favor of wolves being another normal predator than can be managed.
So again I ask realizing wolves are here to stay what is a viable solution to those who feel the wolf is out of control?