Livestock: losses to wolves: compensation program.

Existing law establishes the Department of Food and Agriculture to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to employ hunters and trappers throughout the state to control or eradicate coyotes and other harmful predatory animals and to shoot or trap bears that are damaging livestock, agricultural crops, or standing timber. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to develop a compensation program for livestock owners who lose animals to wolves.