Muliefever, what you described with the herd of Elk and the pack of wolves is exactly the experiences we've witnessed in N.E. Minnesota, especially on winters with higher than normal snow falls and in the early spring when the snow is 2-3 ft. deep with heavy crust. The deer either have a very rough time if they go off the trails, while the wolves can run at will to bring many of them down. Or the deerstick to the trails and the wolves wait to pick them off time after time. Under those conditions a pack of wolves can kill and only partly eat a very significant % of the deer pop. It happened big time in winters of 95, 96 inland from Lake Superior. For 5 years after those winters I saw exactly 2 deer. I saw a number of wolves during that time though.

Finally, deer are starting to make a come back inland. But another couple of tough winters and no controls on the wolves can spell disaster for deer and moose here. (Don't talk to me about southern or central MN either.) I know there are plenty of deer in other part of the state and even close to Lake Superior. But inland in northern MN wolves and now some cougars moving in from Canada can raise hell with deer and moose like you would believe unless you lived or spent a lot of time in the rural areas up here.
We need wolves delisted in MN (have for 10+ years needed that.) Then we need reasonable controls (trapping, hunting) in the heavier wolve pop. areas, not just in central MN. Fair is fair.