“We show that, for the average county, wolf entry reduced DVCs by 24%, yielding an economic benefit that is 63 times greater than the costs of verified wolf predation on livestock.”
Wisconsin pays about $174,000 a year for livestock that wolves kill. Deer crashes in the same state cost close to $200 million. Wolves cut those crashes by about a quarter in the counties they reach. The anti-wolf lobby counts the dead calves and never the totaled cars.