In a pair of executive orders, President Trump has moved to address two enduring tensions at the heart of American ranching life: the contested coexistence with wolves reintroduced to the West decades ago, and the structural bottlenecks that slow livestock from pasture to market. The orders expand ranchers' authority to protect their herds from predation and direct federal agencies to dismantle barriers to meat processing capacity. Taken together, they reflect a recurring truth in democratic governance — that rural livelihoods, long simmering at the edges of national attention, eventually find