Yes, but the wolf issue like so many others has been so thoroughly politicized that many ranchers aren't interested in facts. Where I live, we have wolves starting to make a comeback due to migration over from Yellowstone (which were reintroduced from Canada I believe), into Idaho, and now into Oregon. In the entire region, there are probably around 10 cattle deaths per year from wolves and mountain lions. Those are the only ones that make the news.
The fable everyone has created is that the wolves that are coming over now aren't the native species that used to live here. But that is just something made up to excuse their desire to eradicate them. The most recent research now indicates there is only one species of wolf native to North America, the gray wolf. They used to think there was another species, the Eastern Timber Wolf, but my understanding is that genome sequencing indicates this is actually a hybrid species which came about when gray wolf populations got too low, and they started breeding with coyotes.
The finding highlights the shortcomings of laws intended to protect endangered species that don’t take into account research of the evolution of species.
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