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The heart of Tulare county California is agriculture.
加州图拉雷县的中心是农业。
Here hundreds of ranchers and farmers feed the state, the country and the world.
在这里，数以百计的农场主和农民养活了这个州、这个国家和全世界。
State agriculture experts estimate 800,000 head of livestock live in Tulare and many range the Sequoia National Forest, sharing that space with them: bears, mountain lions, coyotes and more recently the six gray wolves of the Tulare County pack.
州农业专家估计，有80万头家畜生活在图拉雷，其中许多在红杉国家森林中活动，与之共享这片空间的还有: 熊、美洲狮、土狼，以及最近出现的图拉雷县狼群的六头灰狼。
It is a concern with people in that field and have livestock and stuff.
这使该区域的人十分担忧，他们饲养着家畜和其他东西。
They don't want to have to face any more challenges of lost to another predator.
他们不想再面对其他掠食者造成的损失。
Here at Colburn Cattle Company, the livestock are show cattle and one can cost as much as 200,000 dollars.
在科尔本牛公司，这些牛都是展览家畜，一头牛的价格高达20万美元。
Livestock are a billion-dollar industry here and losses are never taken lightly.
畜牧业在这里是一个价值数十亿美元的产业，任何损失都不容小觑。
The mountain lion is one of the biggest and costliest problems.
美洲狮是最大和代价最高的问题之一。
There was so bad that the lions would pack up and they' take whole cows and calves and the neighbor north of us, he just evacuated all of this cattle out there cuz he was just called the losses were so significant.
情况非常糟糕，狮子会成群结队带走所有母牛和牛犊，我们北边的邻居把所有的牛都疏散了，因为他说损失太大。
And then we did, you know, right after him and brought him down here.
然后我们就在这件事之后，把他带到了这里。
While ranchers have tactics to deal with mountain lions, the gray wolf brings new challenges.
当牧场主掌握了对付美洲狮的策略时，灰狼带来了新的挑战。
Scientists say the animals recently returned to California forest and now number 50.
科学家表示，这些动物最近回到了加州森林，现在已经有50只了。
And when all of a sudden you throw this apex predator, a big one, a 200 pound male.
突然间，你把这个顶级掠食者扔了进来，一大只，200磅重的雄性。
It becomes an issue and we're going to have to learn how to deal with that.
它变成了一个难题，我们必须学会如何处理它。
Anticipating some problems, California set aside $3 million for the next three years to reimburse ranchers and farmers who lose livestock to wolves.
预见到一些问题后，加州将在未来三年拨出300万美元，用于补偿因狼而失去家畜的牧场主和农民。
They’re expecting about a million dollars of losses per year over the next three years is what that tells me and that's a lot of animals.
他们预计未来三年内大家每年会损失100万美元，这意味着非常多的动物。
