A good article overall, accurately pointing out the problems, but i take exception to this part.
"Nor do we understand why the state doesn’t freely share whatever information it has about the location of wolves with ranchers. "
Wdfw does in fact provide access to tracking collar data to ranchers in wolf areas, provided they play along with the departments bs non lethal deterrent games, so this quote is really disinformation in my view. The rest of the article is pretty much spot on.