To date the Fox mountain pack has cost the family about 30 head of calves and cows, the use of their deeded land lease at 6500 dollars to date, over 8000 dollars in hay out of their own pockets while they attempted to cooperate with FWS and move their cattle and feed them. Over 600 dollars in fuel to move cattle out of the way of the denning wolves. Compensation bragged about in the pro-wolf circles including FWS amounted to 1600 dollars in hay and 1200 dollars for one cow. There is no compensation for the extra 24 hours a day labor required to stop wolves from killing your livestock. A range rider was also required but has had little impact on keeping the pack out of the cattle. When Corwin Hulsey was informed that he had a right under the law to shoot any wolf killing his stock on his deeded land lease, he put his foot down and FWS finally sprang into action claiming they would feed the wolves and stop the killing. They placed a food cache within 100 yards of the pasture the cattle are in . The feeding looked a lot like baiting wolves into the area to many people closely involved in the Hulsey case.
Read the whole sordid story at Wolf Crossing.
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