ARGGGGGG[:@]!!!!! These kind of articles always make my blood boil after I read them. Simply saying "we told you so" to the feds and wolf lovers doesn't quiet seem adequet. It was no secret that the Yellowstone elk herd was going to be wiped out by wolves when we were trying to stop the reintroduction process in the 90's. All you had to do to see what effect the wolves were going to have was look back in history and see what happened to Alaska's game animals when wolves became protected up there. After entire herds of Dahl sheep and other animals were nearly wiped out the feds finally had to use citizens' tax money to hire proffessionals to shoot the wolves out of airplanes. At the current rate that the wolves are wiping out Yellowstone's elk, it might be only a matter of time until our tax money is used to fix a problem that we tried to fix for free long before it arose. Sound familiar?!?! Oh yeah, the same thing happened when they helped wolves make a comeback in Alaska! Who'd a thunk it?