Those stats I quoted before are old.
Total number of payments from 1987 to June 2008: $1,100,122
see http://www.defenders.org/resources/p...tion_trust.pdf
As Defenders of Wildlife states, "Our goal is to shift economic responsibility for wolf recovery away from the individual rancher and toward the millions of people who want to see the wolf populations restored. When ranchers alone are forced to bear the cost of wolf recovery, it creates animosity and ill will toward the wolf."
So does ignorance, as this discussion has shown . . .
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"Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12
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