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Can New Ranching Practices Help Cattle, Cowboys and Wolves Coexist?

Inside Climate News · Story and photos by Jake Bolster · last updated
A small nonprofit with an innovative approach to predator-livestock conflicts is trying to ease Colorado ranchers’ concerns about wolves.

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

DEL NORTE, Colo.—On an overcast spring day, Keri Brandt Off was helping her friend, Kyler Brown, move and tag his cattle when a heifer broke loose from the herd. It charged at a cowboy tying down her calf, who just managed to tag the baby cow’s ear before scrambling back to his horse.