Relative Risks of Predation on Livestock Posed by Individual Wolves, Black Bears, Mountain Lions, and Coyotes in Idaho

• Published in: Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
• Main Author: Collinge, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2008
• Subjects: black bears; Canis latrans; Canis lupus; coyote; depredation; Puma concolor; livestock; mountain lions; predation; Ursus americanus; wolves; Life Sciences; Perce; gray wolf
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3q40g86f

Gray wolf populations have exceeded anticipated recovery levels since they were first reintroduced to central Idaho in 1995. Although wolf predation on livestock is a relatively minor issue to the livestock industry as a whole, it can be a serious problem for some individual livestock producers who...