Federal funds spent by USDA-Wildlife Services to kill 94,502 predators in seventeen western states (FY 1999): $10.8 million.1

Percent of USDA-Wildlife Services predator control budget spent to protect livestock on public lands: 75 percent.2

Percent of predator control budget paid by ranchers: 1 percent.3

Percent of cattle and calf losses attributed to predation (1995): 2.7 percent.4

Percent of cattle and calf losses attributed to digestive problems, respiratory difficulties, calving complications, weather and other causes (1995): 97.3 percent.5

Predators Killed by USDA Wildlife Services FY1999 6
Animal	Number
Coyote	85,262
Fox	5,531
Bobcat	2,419
Badger	589
Mountain lion	359
Black bear	342
Total	94,502

Cattle and Calf Losses 1995
Non-predator Loss	Percent
Digestive Problems	19.7
Respiratory Difficulties	27.5
Calving Complications	14.8
Weather	9.5
Poison	1.1
Theft	0.4
Other Causes	9.1
Unknown Causes	15.2
Total Non-predator Loss	97.3
Predators	2.7

The Predator Conservation Alliance in Bozeman, Montana, publishes an annual report on predator control by Wildlife Services. Click here for the Alliance's 2002 report.

Berger, K. M. 2006. Carnivore-livestock conflicts: effects of subsidized predator control and economic correlates on the sheep industry. Conservation Biology 20(3): 751. [abstract]

1. Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Predator Conservation Alliance. 2001. Wildlife "Services?" A presentation and analysis of the USDA Wildlife Services Program's expenditures and kill figures for fiscal year 1999. Predator Conservation Alliance. Bozeman, MT: 6.
2. O'Toole, R. 1994. Audit of the USDA Animal Damage Control Program. Cascade Holistic Economic Consultants. Oak Grove, OR: 1.
3. Rogers, P. 1999. Cash cows. San Jose Mercury News (Nov. 7, 1999): 6S.
4. USDA-NASS. 1996. 1995 cattle and calf losses valued at $1.8 billion. USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board. (released May 17, 1996). Available at http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/livestock/pct-bbpl/ctpr059.txt. More livestock are killed by domesticated dogs than mountain lions, bobcats, bears, and wolves, combined.
5. USDA-NASS. 1996. 1995 cattle and calf losses valued at $1.8 billion. USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board. (released May 17, 1996). Available at http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/livestock/pct-bbpl/ctpr059.txt.
6. Predators killed in 17 western states. Predator Conservation Alliance. 2001. Wildlife "Services?" A presentation and analysis of the USDA Wildlife Services Program's expenditures and kill figures for fiscal year 1999. Predator Conservation Alliance. Bozeman, MT: 6.