Candice Berner, a 32-year-old school teacher, was killed in a wolf pack attack in an Alaska Peninsula village .
Elsewhere, a wolf attacked a hunter along the Kuskokwim River near Kalskag, biting the man in his leg
Alaska is not Colorado-it is a much bigger and colder place-with lots of game and apex predators and not a lot of people crowded together in cities. There are seasons in Alaska for the legal harvest of both game and predator animals to keep the ecosystem in balance-it works very well...
In most states, an on-site count of every species of game and predator is done by game wardens at least once a year, county by county-it determines the number of animals of each species from doves to bears, mountain lions, etc that a hunter is limited to kill in a season. If there are too many animals of a species in a county, then the limit is higher for that species there-if the numbers of a species are too low, then the limit is lower, or that animal may not even be hunted at all until the numbers recover-that is how the ecological balance is kept. When there are enough wolves in Colorado to justify a season, I’m pretty sure there will be one.
Obviously, livestock is not part of the game count or the ratio of prey/predator species, since cattle, sheep, goats, etc are not part of the native animal population, being introduced species and not wildlife...
On private land, sensible folks mostly electrify the fences of their livestock pastures-especially on large acreage-if you lease govt. land, you can’t do that-you graze livestock at your own risk of predators, accident, theft, etc...
And countless pets taken from yards, front porches.
These things are vermin.
“Candice Berner, a 32-year-old school teacher...”
IIRC, that was the gal that was out for a run. It was a pretty scary and gruesome story that they deduced from her footprints in the snow and the wolf tracks in the woods along the trail. And the blood trail.
Elephants are herbivores, but these giant creatures can be very dangerous if agitated.