As wolves return to eastern Washington, so do tensions with ranchers
Article by Craig Welch | adn.com
SEATTLE -- When the cougar trackers finally figured out it wasn't a big cat that was wiping out Dave Dashiell's livestock, the wolves already were on their way to killing or wounding 33 sheep.
By then even dogs, traps and specialists armed with lights, paintball guns and rubber bullets couldn't keep the wolves and livestock apart.
"There were days when I walked down a drainage and when I came back two hours later there was a dead lamb where I walked," Dashiell's tearful wife, Julie, told a state wildlife panel [...]