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While other states, including Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, have allowed wolf hunts to resume, California still forbids ranchers from taking aggressive measures to stop the predators.

“California’s farmers and ranchers are at significant risk of bearing the brunt of any potential retaliatory actions resulting from the broad imposition of global tariffs,” said Shannon Douglass, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.

Under an agreement with the Department of the Interior, ranchers conveyed their land to the federal government and in exchange were issued long-term leases to work that land.

Beef producers that compete with Canadian cattle ranchers, for example, could see profits rise.

The recently collared wolves are in areas where livestock conflict occurs, and the tracking data is also expected to shed light on that activity and provide additional information to ranchers to decrease conflict.