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Raynor has studied a variety of animals and habitats. For a time, she worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Hawaii, studying fishing yields. But most of her time has been spent on land; she got her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

RAYNOR: I think living in Wisconsin and just hearing all these controversies about wolf expansion in the state, and I just became really interested in this fight around wolves. I felt like this was a good area for an economist to think about trade-offs.

RAYNOR: At this period where all these wolves were eradicated, there were a few little wolf populations left in Minnesota. And this was connected to the Canadian wolf population. Over the 1970s and 80s, wolves moved back across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan from this Canadian holdout.

The agency in charge of administering the E.S.A. is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It spends more than $200 million a year to do so, with much more money spent by state and local agencies. Some of the animals currently listed as endangered: the Houston toad, the whooping crane, and the Florida panther.

But what about to livestock? Farmers and ranchers certainly have reason to oppose wolves, and a financial incentive as well. Cattle, for instance, are expensive to buy and raise; wolves pose a risk to that investment. Wisconsin Public Radio has been diligently covering the return of wolves to a state that has a lot of dairy and cattle farms. Here, from a report produced by Rich Kremer, is one cattle farmer who had a calf eaten by wolves.

FARMER: I came home from work one day, and I went out to check on the cows. And of course there was one cow that was missing, she was out in the woods. And I go out there to check on her, and she was out there with what had remained of her calf that had been eaten. They ate the bones, the stomach, everything.

RAYNOR: Wisconsin had a quite controversial wolf hunt right after wolves were removed from this endangered species list. About 218 wolves were killed in less than three days. And this was about twice as many as the state wanted to have killed.

In California, where there are now thought to be about 20 wolves, a Federal District Court judge recently overruled the federal decision to delist the gray wolf. This ruling argued that while wolf populations had been recovering in some places, they are still threatened elsewhere. Jennifer Raynor has been listening to both sides of this argument for a decade now, starting when the federal government delisted wolves for the first time.

RAYNOR: Living in Wisconsin at the time, there was a lot of debate about wolves in the news. It just prompted me to think about: What are we gaining by allowing wolves to spread, and what are we losing?

The takeaway from the Bambi movie is that deer are lovely and gentle, and worthy of our protection. If, however, you are an economist, especially a natural-resource economist, you may see it differently.

Why has the deer population exploded like this? One reason is that hunting has been in decline. In just the five years from 2011 to 2016, deer hunting in the U.S. fell by around 25 percent. Why? One reason, Dominic Parker says, is a lifestyle shift.

RAYNOR: We ask whether wolves can reduce the frequency of deer-vehicle collisions, either by changing deer populations, reducing populations, or changing deer behavior. For example, moving deer away from roadsides.

Raynor and her co-authors are now planning to study deer-vehicle collisions in other states that have wolves. The costs and benefits of wolves may well differ from place to place. Wolves are wolves and deer may be deer, but what if there are also, say, a lot of coyotes?

RAYNOR: Wildlife managers are in a really difficult position here. The costs are really evident. Livestock ranching is really important in the western states and wolves are killing livestock. It happens. So I think states are in a really tricky position between balancing the people who are pro-wolf and anti-wolf.

DUBNER: Reading between the lines, it makes me think that video games and social media are driving young deer hunting down, which means driving deer up, which means driving deer-vehicle collisions up, which means that video games and social media cause traffic deaths. Is that about accurate?

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The number of wolves killed in Idaho this past year is down. Katie Oelrich with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game told members of the Wolf Depredation Control Board Thursday that 389 wolves have been killed in the state since last July.

Oelrich also noted that a recent court injunction could dramatically reduce the number of wolves killed next year. The order issued by a federal judge in March forced Fish and Game to curtail the locations and duration of wolf trapping seasons to protect grizzly bears.

On Thursday, the board signed off on $18,000 in reimbursements for Valley County-based Davis Cattle Company, which hired contractors to kill four wolves earlier this year. In its application, the ranch said it had experienced confirmed livestock depredations in the past, though not in the preceding year.

Most complaints are related to livestock problems, Johnson said. Others are typically hunting dog complaints. The state DNR has never received a report of a wolf attack on humans, in modern times, Johnson said. A handful happened in North America over the past century.

RJ: It does go back and forth, but they are currently still on the federal endangered species list. This has a lot of implications on wolves and wolf management in the state. Probably the two most impactful pieces are the availability of public harvest of wolves in the state and lethal conflict abatement options in the case of livestock conflicts or things like that.

RJ: Bringing it full circle, this plan really moves our management program and focus into alignment with where the population is at today. It recognizes that the population has biologically recovered, and it outlines the management program for a recovered species. This includes our conflict program, potential wolf hunting seasons, public education and research needs, and collaboration.

A few days ago I decided to play Fallout:New Vegas again after about a year. My saved game had a character at level 43 at a very strange location. I was at a part of the map called Lone Wolf Radio. It was a derelict trailer full of various audio equipment for what i assume sending out some sort of pirate radio signal. The area didn't seem all too interesting at first mostly because there was no valuable loot besides a Sunset Sarsaparilla star cap and a copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide. What peaked my interest about the trailer was the graffiti that covered the inside of the trailer. On the outside written in some kind of spray paint it said "KEEP OUT" i'm guessing this message was written by an outsider and not by the person whom lived in the trailer who I will call The Lone Wolf. The message scrawled on the inside was far more disconcerting. It read "Everyone is gone, I am alone" and it was written in blood. I decided to look deeper into the matter of this trailer and get some answers about this very out of place location compared to the rest of the game .

After rigorous investigation I managed to track down a person online who could answer my questions. He claimed to be a former employee at Obsidian studios. Although I found his claim dubious at best I decided to hear him out as he was the best lead I had at this point. He told me that that the location was going to tie into a major quest-line. You would tune into your radio at around 2 am to hear The Lone Wolf spout incomprehensible gibberish and proceed to murder a random person. This process would intensify if you ignored the broadcast to the point he would murder a child. According to the former employee, who went by Thomas, they cut the plot line for many reasons the most obvious being that a quest in which a child is murdered is far to graphic for a game with a tone like Fallout:New Vegas. Me and Thomas had a long conversation about the possibility of accessing the game data here is our email messages:

I found it a little disconcerting that I'd get the files in such a manner but I was to amazed to actually get them. I packed them into an esp. file and got to work. I reloaded my save and waited until 2 am for the radio signal. Sure enough I picked up the radio frequency. But what I heard on the broadcast disturbed me deeply I'll write down what I heard below:

" All alone! I am the last true person alive! All around me the skies weep and the earth howls for blood. The very pits of the great below open for another offering. I hope this meager soul pleases you!"

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