RANCH RESILIENCY
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➤ Ranch Management Consultants
Ranch Management Consultants conducts the internationally acclaimed Ranching For Profit School intended to enable ranchers to transform their ranches into successful businesses. More intensive support programs provide structure, support, and accountability to help people accomplish more, faster than they can on their own.
➤ Holistic Resource Management/Savory Institute
Holistic Management uses decision-making and planning procedures that give people the insights and management tools needed to work with the web of complexity that exists in nature: resulting in better, more informed decisions that balance key social, environmental, and financial considerations.
In the context of the ecological restoration of grasslands worldwide, managers implement Holistic Planned Grazing to properly manage livestock – mimicking the predator/prey relationships in which these environments evolved.
➤ CPW’s “Wolf Resource Guide”
CPW’s Hands-on Resource Guide is adapted from a Montana publication. The Hands-on Resource Guide to Reduce Depredations is meant to be a useful introduction for ranchers and livestock owners to implement effective strategies to prevent wolf depredations.The goal of the brochure is to outline different tools that may suit a livestock producer’s operation. CPW and other organizations can offer additional help in evaluating and identifying options and may offer cost sharing, materials, or labor to assist producers’ efforts.
➤ Wolves and Human Safety
Wolves are generally afraid of humans and will avoid people, buildings, and roads if possible. The risk of wolves attacking or killing people is low. As with other wildlife, it is best not to feed wolves and to keep them at a respectful distance. Wolves may kill pets if they encounter them, although such events are infrequent.
➤ Wolves and Disease
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious and fatal disease found in deer, elk, and moose in Colorado. Selective predation by wolves on sick and diseased animals may help limit CWD in big game, but no field study has tested this prediction.
Hydatid disease is caused by the Echinococcus tapeworm. Canines such as wolves, coyotes, foxes, and domestic dogs are the host, and ungulates such as deer, elk, moose, and domestic livestock are part of the disease cycle. In rare circumstances humans may be infected by accidentally ingesting eggs, but direct human infection from wolves is extremely unlikely.
Dogs and wolves are closely related and also can share many of the same parasites and diseases. Dogs are much more likely to infect wolves than vice-versa.
➤ Wolves and Livestock
Impacts to livestock from wolves can include mortality from wolf predation, and other impacts such as reduced weight gain. These costs are unevenly distributed with some producers suffering greater losses than others. Although wolf depredation is a small economic cost to the livestock industry as a whole, the impacts to individual producers can be substantial.
On rare occasions wolves only eat a portion of what is killed. Such events can reinforce negative perceptions of wolves.
Wildlife managers and livestock producers have a variety of management tools to reduce conflict with wolves, including changing livestock management and directly managing wolves. Both non-lethal and lethal tools can be effective to either prevent conflict or reactively after conflict has occurred.