Wolves are a generally a shy animal and a sighting, let alone a conflict, is extremely rare. The two major insistences of wolves and humans conflicts involve a median of livestock or domestic animals. Wolves primarily feed on deer, elk, and moose, and only occasionally will prey on domestic livestock. This behavior can be culled by the rancher taking a few precautions to limit wolves and livestock interactions. The problem lies in effecting a change with ranchers and farmers in the areas that are repopulating. The conflict that brought the Wedge pack into the spot light was when they established a den site where ranchers have been running livestock on public land for the last one hundred years. These range areas are usually remote and backed up to or include those secure habitat areas that wolves have found safe havens from the ever sprawling urban expansion. These ranchers have experienced very little predation and what little they have is compensated for by the federal government. Ranchers that run stock on public lands feel that they have been rightfully doing business the same way for generations and shouldn’t have to adjust their practices for the new critter on the block. The Wedge Pack became habituated to seek easy prey in the range area just south of their den site. The rancher refused to adjust his practices once the pack made itself known with the first few livestock kills. WDFW, Conservation Northwest and a few other groups tried to convince the rancher that he needed to adjust his practices to no avail. These groups exercised other measures to deter the pack, at one point they pooled their resources and hired a range rider. By the time effective measures were in place, it was too little, too late. The pack had become habituated. If the rancher would have brought his herd down from the remote country or moved the herd to a different range the pack would have moved on. When a conflict arises involving wildlife, WDFW h