Management of Wolf and Lynx Conflicts with Human Interests

In this note a simple cowboy wannabe is expressing his sincere but insufficientgratitude towards some of the people who has made his studies possible and fun.However, I have had so much help from so many people it would be impossible tothank them all in this thesis. Thus it is only the top of the ice berg that is properlyacknowledged on the following pages. For example many of my friends are notacknowledged although they have been essential for my work. They may workvery little or not at all with large carnivores, but it is invaluable to have friendslike, for example Anders Palm, Tomer Shalit, Roger Vallin, the Killer Kennholtgang, Andreas Norin, Magnus Sjöström and their families. Without friends likethem, who actually does not care if you write a bad paper, say something reallystupid on TV or writes a Phd thesis that maybe is not god ́s gift to science,everything would be at stake each day. I would not be able to work like that forvery long and certainly not long enough to complete this thesis. Without your helpI had not finished this thesis, I would not even have started working on it.