The Impact of Wolf Hunting Much Greater than Commonly Assumed

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Wolf culls, the logic goes, are acceptable because they have a compensatory impact on the population. Thus, when a hunter takes a wolf in season, he or she is simply exchanging a natural death for death at the hands of humans. Those that remain, the argument then goes, benefit from being part of a smaller population with the same number of resources.
The only problem, new research suggests, is that this isn't how it works.

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