This is not really a documentary. It is a propaganda piece on behalf of ranchers who are not willing to tolerate ANY losses (except for 1 or 2 exceptions, city ranchers). The point is ranchers have gotten lazy. For the majority of ranching history, ranching was a challenge, it has always been a challenge to keep lazy livestock alive in the face of healthy predators. However, in the past century, government has sided with business, as in many other sectors, and allowed ranchers to effect zero tolerance for wolf kill... thereby decimating wolf populations. After wolf reintroduction, as was expected, ranchers complained at every single cattle fatality, again, zero tolerance. Ranchers succeeded in convincing environmentalists and governments, that... "really, we just want to live at peace with wolves, and only kill the ones that are really cattle killers". And so the government folded, and the ranchers started to decimate the wolf population again. Why environmentalists even bother negotiating with ranchers I do not know. Ranchers need to get reinstate proper sheep dogs, dogs with enough instincts/training to hold wolves at bay... to a point. And ranchers need to accept that they just have to deal with a certain percentage of losses, just like any other business. This film also presents the false 'call to hope' that ranchers can play a substantial role in protecting wild open spaces. But that is not their ultimate interest... they do sell out when the money gets big enough, eventually. The only way to protect nature from human encroachment onto wild open spaces (which shouldn't really be "open" anyway) is to legislate it. Where we need a zero tolerance attitude is on any further human spreading. We need zero human growth, zero human expansion. That is the only chance wildlife has any chance of surviving massively over-breeding humans.
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