Well put, 9.3. I feel your pain - happened here, as I mentioned.
: 'Proof' or lack there-of is the tool of the anti. So often is is impossible to prove wolves did kill the livestock, run them off or whatever. It got to the point here, where the predetor control officer was told he could only shoot those wolves which were actively chasing livestock with 'intent' to kill them & had to be able to prove that with fact. Just because there were wolves in a field with the livestock which were madly running to and fro, didn't mean those were the wolves that killed livestock in that very same field yesterday.
; What brought this to a head and our attention, was the control officer shot a several wolves from a chopper which were in a field with horses & almsot lost his job due to having no proof they'd killed one already as he didn't SEE them do it. The biologist said they may have been different wolves than those which killed the mare. That is what the rancher is up against.
; This ridiculousness is why 'the people' took the law into their own hands and did the job themselves.