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Old 05-26-2015, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by st99 View Post
Your math don't add up. If the actual mortality rate is 35%, and at that rate the herd stay stable. We don't need 80% to reduce the population, but only 40% would generate a 5% decrease in population. And 5% is better than none.
The reduction you refer to is not additive it's compensatory - you are in effect killing wolves which are already dead, thus no gain.
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