Carcass Management Producer Tool Kit

Across the West, carcass management is increasingly recognized as an important part of systems-based livestock and predator conflict prevention efforts and for its role in increasing human safety on the landscape. A main component of predator-livestock conflict mitigation is reducing the availability of attractants on the landscape; in this case, animal carcasses and bone piles. Carcass management for livestock-carnivore conflict mitigation focuses on securing or removing carcasses and bone piles that can bring predators within close proximity to livestock, thereby increasing the potential for depredation.

This tool kit is a compilation of direct experience and knowledge of carcass management from producers and researchers across the West. Together with compensation, control, and collaboration, conflict prevention practices like carcass management are essential pieces of the puzzle for supporting resilient ranches, rural communities and connected landscapes in the West.