Hi jones123

I find all this concern from hunters over the fact that a few wolves are running around a bit odd. I live in BC and was raised in Alberta which i believe was the source of the wolf population in yellowstone.
I believe the Montana biologists were looking for wolves that in fact were use to hunting elk so Alberta wolves. were relocated instead of say Alaska wolves.Since then many more wolves have found their way into Idaho all by them selves through the Flathead River Valley in southern BC.
I assure you there is still plenty of elk in Alberta even though the wolf population is much higher than you have stateside.
In Northern BC, we have mountains with caribou, moose, elk, deer, sheep, goats,black/grizzly bears and WOLVESall gettin along togetherjust fine. Seems to be room for everyone and I have taken several 6 point elk in 2 years.
As a trophy, a big wolf hunted fair chase is second to none, certainly tougher than takin an elk.
When I use to work in the arctic I saw that without wolves killing and in fact even overkilling caribou, the barren ground grizzlies were probably unlikely to survive the first month of spring. The only food available to them was old wolf kills left on the ice months earlier. Both the caribou and the wolves were by this time, hundreds of miles away. The wolverine was another beneficiary of this behavior.
I hope given more time, montana hunters can declare a truce just like those of us who cant immagine not sharing our hunting grounds with the wolf.
Happy Hunting