I think what people get concerned about is when they start seeing them in "THEIR WOODS". You can throw all the statistics about wolves only taking 1 1/2 percent of the deer population at them you want, but when they see 6 or 8 wolves in their woods they see the end of "Their Spot". Wolf home range in Wisconsin is so much smaller than in Canada, why???? but because there's more to eat in a close range. A pack can have as small a range as 25 miles in Minnesota or Wisconsin, where as it's several hundred miles in Canada. So now the guy sees 6 or 8 wolfs killing 300-400 deer within 25 miles.... well sure it makes him nervous. He may have a point if that's the territory of his home grown wolves. But, as soon as the population tapers off they'll increase their range and spread out allowing for growth of the herd. That said, add a couple years of bad winter kills and the guy surely will panic. I sat on this one ridge in Indiana this year bow hunting. Down in the valley a lady has 50 wolves in pens. What a sound they made a last light. You're sitting there and suddenly 50 wolves are serenading you. Wild.

I think you will always have people that are going to shoot some. I think because of that... there will never be a season. They just won't flourish enough to become a problem, at least not in my lifetime. The biggest problems arise when they decide cows, calfs, sheep and other domestic critters are so much easier to get than a deer. If they plant them in my woods, I'm sure I'll try to get them to move.