Sorry Pa,

But you are trying to paint a black and white picture by the exmaples of bear attacks you site, which is not the case.

On occasion wild animals are going to attack no matter what, or how they've been managed(that's why they have that TV show--when animals attack!), . Still, it goes to common sense that animals that areless afraid of man, less "wild" if you will, are more likely to be more comfortable in the same areas as man and that fact alone will create an environment prone to more attacks.

The proclivity of wolves to become more and more agressive within the current "management" of the Feds is just one piece of the pie and one that the newspaper article reflects. A pack of wolves is THE Apex predator--It's just a matter of numbers. With the right numbers there is nothing that can challenge them. THe impact that a pack has on everything around them is easily measurable and many believe that the short-sightedness, and perhaps anti-hunter/western resident rights policies of the FED on this issue is just as measurable.

THe ecological fallacy stuff is probably the same bunch of malarkeythat the "pro" re-introduction crowd is using. I swear, all you have to do is talk to people, to real-hunters/outdoorsman from the west or who have had enough experiencein those areas to get the real scoop. I know a lot of themand lived out there for several years and can tell you that no hunters/ real outdoorsmanI ever met was in favor of the current management situation in regards to wolves.