Ranchers repeatedly stress they are not advocating extermination of the wolves, but workable management solutions. “We’re trying to be conservationists,” says Luke Morgan, Lightning Bolt Cattle Co.

This is the fourth part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. A lone gray wolf (Canis lupus) named OR-7 — then a 2 ½-year-old male — ...

California’s expanding gray wolf numbers — a conservation success for an endangered species — have worried ranchers in recent years as wolf-related livestock kills mount. Some ranchers are adapting to ...