The problem isn't the wolves, the problem is the extermination of wolves that led to this scenario. The wolf/elk/cattle populations would've been just fine, but the extermination of wolves caused the equilibrium to be absolutely whack.

Oh my God! It took me a minute but I just realized what I watched here. I watched a non-polarizing, issue neutral, bias free, account of what could potentially be a polarizing issue, which addressed both sides of the story and simultaneously left it up to the viewer to decide how they felt about the issue. Even the comments here are relatively free of extremist views and seem more like general discourse than a warzone. All the while, the video exposed a potentially harmful flaw on our current conservation programs. It was... refreshing. Leave it to the wolves to shed a little light on the truth. I wonder how many other animals are still grandfathered into the endangered species lists in spite of actual numbers.

The animals are probably saying "dang, there use to be so much land for us then these humans moved in" lol

“We just don’t want them here” too bad it was their home first.

"It's unfortunate that more of us didn't think harder about the potential for backlash" Every decision ever made by the US government

I remember Tazmanian tiger being extinct. Some people just don't realize what lost they will have until this animals are gone. 😒

we have tons of them in alberta and bc, we have no problem with them

He lost 120 sheep in one night? Haha, no way. Wolves do not eat that much and even if multiple packs came through, no way would they take down 120 sheep. I doubt they'd take down 20!

I can appreciate an environmentalist with enough intellectual honesty to admit she screwed up.

The wolfs have as much right to the land as the ranchers

I'd rather keep the wolves

merima livestock guardian dogs have had a great success keeping dingoes away from livestock here in Australia they form their own pack they stay with the stock and they let the wolves know you're ranch belongs to you're pack and will fight wolves to the death if need be just put a wolf collar on just start with a couple breed them desex the pups sell the second litter or any more than you need

Funny how these ranchers don’t mention that they use federal and state land to raise their livestock on. Maybe I would feel bad for them if the wolves we’re coming onto private property.

“We don’t want them here” The ironic is comically sad

Go Wolvies! LOL

Well they were there first! How are they the problem?

This is an interesting debate. One side, wolves are numerous and deer and elk are deminishing. The other side, yes theres a healthy number of wolves, but we are not passed the point where their genes have mixed enough.

7:48 im dying lol

These wolves have as much as a right to the land as the ranchers i dont feel bad

Ahhhh the wolves were there first just saying

Amazing animals, visually!

Wolves don't cause conflict, people do.

I got to see a couple of them when I was there 10 years ago it was so cool

Isn’t cattle one of the leading causes of carbon emissions.🤷🏾‍♀️I’d rather have more wolves and a better environment

Am I for wolves, yes.

Wolves need a place to live too.

We love living in the area that a retro report is talking about 😅😅

Started seeing these north of the mohawk valley where the Adirondacks start I thought I was crazy, like those are some big coyotes

where talking about maintaining the wolf population at a certain amount while humans keep populating everyday.. we need to fix that.

Why do we want less than 300 wolves but we allow thousands of mountain lions and black bears. We have more grizzly bears in the Yellowstone Ecosystem than wolves.

I don't care about the ranchers. Federal land is taxpayer land, and as a tax payer I want it to be used for the wildlife. Buy a farm, construct barns and fences to keep predators out, use guard dogs or motion sensor lights to frighten away predators. Slaughtering wolves is sick.

Let’s be honest. We don’t have to many wolves overall in the region. In certain areas like the Lolo Zone in Idaho things are out of balance. But overall we don’t have to many wolves. There are more than a quarter million elk, thousands of mountain lions and probably more than 50,000 black bears across the region. There are 700 grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wolves don’t number nearly as much in that area.

So when will you restore wolves to NYC and other traditional habitats? They were not just in the Rockies

I do find it hard to sympathise with a rancher who can apparently lose 60,000 dollars worth of livestock in two years and still be in business

1600 wolves in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and how many people live there maybe we should back off instead of the wolves considering they were here first

Now they are in New York City. Wolves and Coyotes are in New York City's Central Park and on Staten Island. I bought my sister a Tibetan Mastiff to keep the wolves away from her house.

There a large dogs that are breed to fight off wolves and used to guard flocks of sheep and cattle. They will stay with the heard 24/7 and wolves will defer.

If this topic interests you try the book "Where the Wild Things Were".

Hm, that hunter guy was a pretty reasonable fellow.

They're roaming in public property and not in your property is it's all good. If you keep your animals in your property and fence it off you been good.

Both sides missed the mark back then. Too many Elk are bad, so you add wolves, but with so many elk you get a sharp incline in wolves, then the elk shrink and now the wolves have to hunt cattle to live. Its finally leveled off now, but of course you still have to hunt wolves. You cant let the pengilum swing too far either way.

Was there a big part of that ecosystem

Yellowstone National Park is not in Central Idaho. It's near the Wyoming/Idaho border. But the first wolves were introduced in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

Why dose no one talk about red wolves who are only in 1 or 2 counties in North Carolina

Aroooooooooooo.

I love how that one person was like put up a fence... if I put up a fence around my cattle the Wolves can't get to it... but then I can't let my cattle Run free in the mountains so I don't have to feed them

Can they put wolves on Kodiak Island?

How can anyone not love wolves? They are gorgeous animals who have the right to live again where they once lived in peace with nature till man took them out . .

literally just get taller fences

I want one to grow old with...I love them.

In this lawless Administration the respect for law is non-existent

Didn't more bison get killed in the U.S. than any other animal to starve the natives?

Wolf lived there first

Build the donal trump wall around your ranches.

There is a reason why wolves are coming to the doors

Ed Bangs?

How much do one actually needs to live on,makes one think's, really how ignorant can humans be.money and greed will always destroy every living thing.

look, here's an outlandish idea. if the area you want to settle in is too dangerous to live in, don't settle there. it's easy.

*American’s are sure getting picky of who they think should live and where. Wolves ARE a keystone species and needed for a balanced ecosystem, period.*

Yeah?!?! Not co side ring science will bite ya back! No pun intended

Its sad because the best answer is taking a little bit from both sides of the argument to handel the problem the rite way. To just let the wolves go unchecked is going to cause problems to humans. But to hunt them freely leads to there extinction. So somewhere in the middle would seem like the best answer? Both sides just stand dead set on there opinion being they only rite one.

Britain is overrun with rabbits destroying the crops across the farming communities how about a few dozen wolves for British farmlands??

Ranchers figure in troy losses to wolves As cost of doing business & ethical duty to maintain & honor the land & all it's natural inhabitants. We must preserve as much of our natural resources as much as possible

LMFAO who was there first, the wolves that they killed off or the POS(s) that killed them off ?

OK look here wolves are wolves there just being there selves so if you have a problem with animals you have a problem with me

Sorry but the wolves were here first. These farmers need guard dogs.

For Christ’s sake the grey wolves are as Far East as Iowa ! And that’s insane ! We heard they came from the Minnesota population but genetic testing proved they came from the west ! We have mountain lions killed by police in Des Moines Iowa ! Last I checked Des Moines looks like any other large city ! But here are mountain lions , a few killed every year by deer hunters hunting white tails and happen to drive them out ! I know for a fact seen it with my own eyes took pictures and showed the state wildlife biologists a wolve pack along the Des Moines river basin near and around Iowa’s largest man made lake ! And baby mountain lion cubs running over a mom at a den sight! black bears reproduction in the NE part of the state... places I take my children too trout fish but too be ran out by black bear and cubs . We don’t have the people to protect animal and people confrontations. We can’t even protect our wildlife we have with the few officers Iowa counties can afford we ruined our pheasant hunting king status by creating a breeding ground of predators all while the fur market was destroyed by anti fur people and peta they think they won but they only caused starvation on this fur bearing animals and the loss of the song birds the rabbits the squirrels the migratory water fowl it’s insane why we continuously mess in Mother Nature’s receipe book! There are reasons these animals have fell into pockets of habitat! Natural reasons. We have lost billions in outta state revenue for pheasant hunting! Billions! Common people think things thru before you go messing with nature .

I would love to have feedback (fair criticism) on this idea:- Have the park authorities (Yellowstone and Grand Teton) considered raising the cost of admission by just a few dollars and using the money to compensate ranchers within some reasonable radius of the parks for cattle losses that can be proven to be wolf related? Yellowstone has received over 3 million visitors per year for a few years in a row in recent years, and ranchers in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming have reported somewhere in the vicinity of 4500 animals lost to wolves per year (though this may be greatly inflated). If we overestimate both the number heads of cattle lost per year at 4500 and the price of a head of cattle at $1500, then gross losses due to wolves are less than $7 million per year for cattle (probably far far far less). So if just 2 million annual visitors to the park pay an extra $3.50 for admission, then the funds raised could easily be used to compensate ranchers. Money to compensate ranchers can even be supplemented by imposing a small tax on businesses in the towns in the Greater Yellowstone region (since many of those businesses depend of the money spent by park tourists.... well over 300 million and even over $500 million per year in recent years). Couple that with some really well trained cattle guard dogs (like Kangal dogs), and I think that we can find room for the wolves and ranchers to co-exist. And here is another crazy idea (I'm not sure if this is technically feasible); what about placing something similar to a 'shock collar' on at least some members of each pack of the park's wolves (especially on the 'alpha pair'), that can work at very long range (perhaps by GPS satellite sensing) to give the animals a slight electric shock every time they stray too far from the park, or perhaps every time they roam onto a cattle or sheep ranch? Transmitters can be installed on the ranch that send a signal to the collar to shock the wolf when they come near the ranch? That way the wolves can start to avoid the negative experience of a shock that is associated with being around cattle (or being in specific areas) in the same way that a dog shock collar can be used to train pet dogs to avoid straying out of a yard.

Some days I honestly feel like the NPS is the only federal body doing good in the US... and ditto for Parks Canada up here. So, y'know, vote all the way down the ballot in every election available to you, because 45 is interested in shutting them down entirely in America, and we're looking at a bleak future for environmentalism in Canada in the next 5-10 years.

Maybe we shouldn’t have hunted another species nearly to extinction. This was horrific.

Like we need more cows and sheep

He lost 120 sheep in one night? No way! Seems like the Wolf haters are also liars! Pfft

If they don’t want their cows being eaten by wolves they should stop leeching off of public land.

That guy said, we just don't want them here, and the white man also said that about the native American Indians, both were here before them

@4:00 BRO, google Kangal dogs. Problem solved

Wolves are a beautiful part of the animal kingdom & deserve to have a great life. If you don't want them to eat your cattle, sheep, ect then make a tall privacy fence & protect your livestock! #🐺

Cabbage patch cows. Shouldn't raise cows in wolf territory. Try bison

Endangered species are important but if you want to re-introduce a predator to an area full of cattle, you can expect it not to go well, and you can expect everybody that is getting screwed by the wolves to get mad.

Are wolves safe to humans? I've always thought of them as hostile and scary, like bears.

How about we let nature do it’s thing.

*I guess my biggest question is the fact that if ranchers are grazing THEIR cattle on public lands then I’m not sure their interests should be paramount over the rest of the nation.*

They should go back to their country. The people. This is wolf country

I like my steaks (cow), elk and deer (venison),,, I don't like wolf ,,, tastes really bad,,, no wolves for me,,,

Why don't people investigate who really owns "public" lands. It is not the public.

I despise ranchers and farmers and greedy humans

Science has lost! America the ignorant...

Save all the wolves

American ranchers are the only ranchers in the world crying about wolves, and losses. Every other countries ranchers have dealt with wolves all their lives, and they dont cry. American ranchers have just had a free ride for too long. Now they are crying as if these losses are going to cripple them... where are all the crippled Canadian ranchers!

"Coverage on the news" cuts to Fox news....how credible lol

Wolves are absolutely beautiful creatures, and we shouldn’t be killing these keystone species.

Put them in Wall Street so they will become The Wolves of Wall Street. Isn't that great?

I wish wolves had high power, telescopic sighted rifles and knew how to use them.

Keep the wolves alive! Don't let them go under danger/extinction!

Do-gooders not thinking things through is no surprise. Coyotes are like mice in Illinois now.

People act like the ranchers hate wildlife. I guarantee they care more then miss Harry Potter glasses. They just live in nature so they see what is actually going on. Wolves and grizzly bears are out of control, and you all would see that if you lived with them.

1:55 what a surprise a middle aged white woman who thinks she knows what's best for everyone. Do you trust someone who chose those glasses and that haircut? lol

It's hilarious that all they say that they're hunters but they have all have weapons to hunt. Let see how good of a hunter just with bare hands.

Ranchers and farmers living closer to the wolves region are saying they don't want wolves.. And you sitting in your office and beautiful home in the city saying. you want wolves..

this is one of those times where the rancher should be reimbursed for their losses

Wolf meat is delicious!... everyone should try it once in their lifetime.