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This issue isn't about wolves, it is about the destruction of traditions and philosophies of game management as very successfully implemented by our state Fish and Game Departments. They have been wildly successful in growing elk and deer herds in the West and deer in the East. It is, ultimately, about the destruction of hunting and the rights of property owners just as Dphariss says.

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Many so-called environmentalists fall in your camp, the camp that espouses the notion of the "circle of life", ...

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Thus, any wolf that steps off Federal ground could be legally shot, poisoned, dynamited, trapped or otherwise culled at the discretion of the property owner. THAT might be a just and culturally sensitive method of managing introduced species. Right now the rights of property owners are ignored and violated at every step of this discussion.

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I would say if it's on Your Property it's fair game, (to protect livestock) but that's just me.
The civil rights thing appears worth looking into, anything that takes food out of your childrens mouths needs to be brought under control.

I doubt anything but an open season and allowing night-time hunting would really reduce the wolf population.

Unlike Leopard and lion of Africa - who's gona pay big bucks to shoot a wolf? It's just a wild dog after all. And at least the wild dogs of africa have Lions, Hyenas, and such to compete with. I doubt Bears, mountain lion and wolfs cross paths enough to have a significant impact on each other - but I'm open to being corrected.

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