The reintroducing wolves to the northern rocky mountains has been a legal, political and biological war. Among the different actors of the war, the ranchers are the ones that are against the reintroduction of the wolves worried about losing their livestock for these predators attacks. Regardless of the effort made by ranchers, the gray wolf population has been successfully reintroduced into Rocky Mountains, going from almost being extincted to more than 1600 wolves by the end of 2012. Nowadays, the wolves has received a protection as an endangered species in the Rocky Mountains.
