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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by WalterBright on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:23PM (#27986395)
I've proposed this many times, but the idea gets no traction. I don't really know why. I bet paying for a cow now and then would be even cheaper than paying government hunters to use helicopters, etc., to hunt the wolves.

It's an appropriate use of tax money.

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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by Someone on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:57PM (#27987053)
https://www.mda.state.mn.us/business-dev-loans-grants/wolf-d...: “the 1977 Minnesota Legislature authorized the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) to reimburse livestock owners for losses caused by wolves”

Reading https://www.minnpost.com/environment/2020/02/heres-how-much-..., that gets around 100 claims per year, for a payout of about $100,000.

The EU has a similar program (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46153727)

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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by WalterBright on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:09PM (#27987300)
Sounds like a good program.

In Washington State, the newspaper articles on it always present it as one of:

1. the state sends out the helicopters and gunmen

2. the rancher eats the cost of the dead cows

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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by Someone on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:38PM (#27987799)
And yet, there’s https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/at-risk/species-recover....

I wouldn’t know whether that compensation is fair or how bureaucratic the procedure is.

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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by at_a_remove on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:55PM (#27989584)
I wonder how vulnerable that is to the Cobra Effect.
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Re:We should build for wildlife as well as people by WalterBright on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:35PM (#27992519)
Any and all government payment programs are vulnerable to that.
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