I don't know if there is a correct given choice for every situation. Example I do not poach or believe in poaching for any reasons. Excpt a family that is starving and they need to eat. In todays world in the USA that is very rare. Anyway I stand by my point that I don't believe in poaching but if given the chance to kill a WOLF and not get caught you bet your but that I would do it in a heart beat. Why you might ask why? Well the wolves around here in Idaho were forced upon us by the stupid tree huggers. We are living and dealing with all their problems that they are creating. Even the local fish and game are tearing their hair out because their hands are tied. Biased (ie tree huggers) federal biologist come up with different stats than our local boys. In the units where the wolves are, the elk population is suffering. The tree huggers blame it on hunting of course, even though that 12 years ago (before the wolves) their was double the number of elk and double the hunters, figure that one out. I remember reading in the paper about two years ago a federal offical even told our local Fish and Game that they needed to limit the # of elk tags and hunters, along with the # of day allowed to hunt in cenrtal Idaho, like it used to be before the wolves were intoduced. Our local F&G just gave him the overall numbers of elk, and hunters/tags with harvest reports and season dates going back 20 plus years. Seeing for himself that the seasons were almost twice as long back then, with twice the number of hunters with twice the elk harvest, and twice the number of elk to be found. The Federal officer stated that either their counts were off or that central Idaho had some very bad winter kills and we in Idaho just didn't know it. He made it known though that the problem just couldn't be because of the wolves. The tide is starting to turn only because the wolves are creating a problem that can't just be covered up or overlooked by a simple excuse. Anyway back to my point would I kill a wolf here in Idaho? Your darn right I would, I would also kill its pups if I had the chance! Now on the other hand if I was in Alaska where the wolves have been and always will. Would I go on a wolf killing spree, I think not! I would kill one or more if I had a tag or tags. But I wouldn't break the law, like I want to do here in Idaho. Same goes for Idaho I hope we can hunt them and manage them and try to bring the problem under control because that what needs to be done. When that happens I wouldn't break the law then either. Just my 2 cents