"...your organization [Working Circle] is, indeed, invested in helping us to maintain our livelihood and our heritage! Thanks again for all of your help!"
                                                      ~ Siskiyou County rancher, 2016
Working Circle is focused on serving ranching communities to proactively reduce the potential of wolf-livestock conflict through herd and operational management strategies that also support ranch resiliency and economic viability.  We strive to honor the ranching heritage while conserving the gray wolf through cattle and ranch-specific management practices that promote ranchers as the stewards of the working lands and wildlife we all value.  

Our comprehensive approach focuses on stockmanship, herd health & nutrition, resource management, and rancher knowledge of the landscape. It merges these elements with predator ecology to enable ranchers to not only successfully operate with predators on the landscape, but also experience co-benefits in cattle productivity, operational efficacy, and economic gain.

Our strategies focus less on managing for wolves, less on conflict deterrents, and more on managing for what ranchers want to achieve long-term for their ranch. This is the key to discovering and implementing the best course for coexisting with predators. 

We believe in the need to move away from reactive wolf management to proactive ranch management - it is through this that we can finally realize long-term coexistence success and ensure that ranchers can stay ranching for generations to come.  

LINKS:
Root of the Coexistence Challenge
Understanding Vulnerability for Managing Conflict Risk
Calving Season Tips


Reducing Wolf-Livestock
Conflict

Supporting Ranch Resiliency & Sustainability
Working Circle supports ranching communities to discover and implement long-term and sustainable strategies that reduce the vulnerability of cattle to large carnivores through herd and land management practices.
​ Learn more about this effort ​here.
We support the implementation of sustainable practices that advance operational resiliency and economic viability allowing ranchers to withstand the challenges and changes of time. 
​Learn more about this effort ​here.​

​Working Circles

Wolf, Wildlife, and Landscape Surveys
Our work includes connecting people to people from within their community and those outside their community who have helpful experience and knowledge.
​Learn more here.​
Understanding the landscape and how wildlife utilize the diverse landscapes is critical to forwarding viable conservation and wolf-livestock conflict reduction strategies. 
​Learn more about our field work here. 

Increasing Social Capacity for Shared Landscapes

Working Circle recognizes the need to understand and respect different values and perspectives.  We focus on efforts that honor those diverse values while working to bring greater awareness to the social and biological dynamics and challenges surrounding large carnivore conservation and sustainable ranching. 
Learn more about this effort here.
"Trust is built in the saddle, working side-by-side, doing the jobs that need to get done anyway."
​~ Mike Ensley
Working Circle activities are advised by our ranching partners, experienced clinicians, and predator biologists/conservationists.  

​Reach out with any questions or for assistance.​

To learn more about our approach please see our Root of the Coexistence Challenge page.
DONATE HERE to support proven, long-term, and sustainable strategies
to reduce wolf-livestock conflict, thus protecting both cattle and wolves.
For more ways to donate visit our SUPPORT US! page.