Western ranchers want welfare but won’t admit it — hypocrisy alert

Neither will their PR flacks like Bonnie Kline, in a less-than-stellar article from the normally top-notch High Country News.

When your opening sentence is:

The extremists who are on a mission to eliminate the Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services would do well to spend time with ranchers who live and work on our Western landscape.

The truth?

Large predators kill less than one-tenth of one percent, or 0.1 percent of Western cattle. Weather kills nearly four percent.