Kamas rancher John Blazzard says:

I'm pretty sure that we saw some tracks last summer up in the woods. There is a place for them, but it sure is not where people have tried to civilize and are trying to make a living on the ground. ...
My ancestors spent an awful lot of time and effort trying to wipe them out.

Bruce Johnson, a state Division of Wildlife Resources conservation officer, says the situation will never make both ranchers and environmentalists happy:

There doesn't seem to be much in-between ground. There are ideas and myths that are created, and people have an image in their head, and right or wrong, that's their image.