[QUOTE=Kirk007;2368134]Where things get really ugly on carnivores and control is with public lands ranching. Cattle ranching is very heavily subsidized by American taxpayers with low cost grazing allotments. One would think that, given they are using federal public land, that use restrictions reflecting the majority will (for instance in Washington over 70% support the presence of wolves in the state) would be a reasonable restriction. Not so, at least not from the perspective of most ranchers (and loggers and on and on)./QUOTE]
That's a mentality I just don't get. But I'm just a Westerner all my life, and a lover of the outdoors. Not a rancher with animals to graze. Not inclined to develop a sense of entitlement to public land beyond my equal privilege to visit it.
I may need to re-read
Bernard DeVoto's essays to remind myself that this is the way it's been for a long time.