Wolves in the Spotlight: Report, Funding, and a Webinar
The California Cattlemen’s Association is out with two wolf-related updates this week—one looking back and one looking ahead.
First up, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a 10-year report summarizing its gray wolf management efforts. While light on new details, it includes easy-to-read tables and graphics tracking wolf populations and movements over the past decade. The report lists a 2024 year-end count of 50 wolves, but CCA staff—reviewing agency updates—believes the number was closer to 78. Most important for future policy: five known breeding pairs.
Looking forward, the Department plans to issue similar reports annually.
And in a nod to current challenges, California’s revised Budget Act includes $2 million for the state’s Wolf-Livestock Compensation Program—aimed at helping producers offset losses from wolf depredation.
The California Cattlemen’s Association will also be hosting a virtual wolf deterrence webinar on July 22 at 1 p.m. Registration: https://tinyurl.com/2s3sfpk2
