Sville;

Wait till you have a few thousand ulve. The results are not good.

However, and this I cannot prove but would love to see a study on it.

It may be that the prolificacy of pigs is such that they can serve as an alternative prey species sufficient to alleviate some stress on ungulates. We do not have pigs. We also have less and less game, so much less in fact that our hunting seasons have been dramatically curtailed. Hunting and trapping alone will not sufficiently reduce wolf populations to allow recovery of elk.

Hopefully your politicians and hunters can learn from our catastrophe here and enact true control measures before it is too late.