I have no idea what you're talking about.


I take it you don't read Field & Stream magazine, they had an estimate in the March issue, that the elk population is going negative, not maintaining itself.

In the example of Yellowstone National Park, F&S said that:

"The predicted decimation of the northern Yellowstone elk herd following the re-intoduction of gray wolves has proven wrong: instead of a 1-in-10 loss, the rate has been over half!
At last count, 1,246 wolves- at or near the region's carrying capacity-inhabit the NorthernRockies of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.
Buet the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service won't certify the wolf as recovered because only Idaho and Montana have presented management plans that classify Canis lupus as trophy big game. Wyoming insists on regarding wolves as predators (that can be shot without a permit) outside trophy-game area outside Yellowstone-a plan the USFWS has rejected.

There had been little movement toward an agreement until late last year,when the USFWS considered a compromise- if Wyoming were to expand the trophy area outside Yellowstone, the state could classify wolves as predators beyond that zone. Wyoming's Game & Fish director Terry Cleveland says that elk and wolves in the state are coexisting, listing factors from grizzlies to droughtascontributors to the drop in elk numbers.
However, he says, "Ifwe don't get the wolves de-listed, the elk hunting opportunity is going to drop."
Area hunters are ambivalent. Some see wolves as a threat to game; others want to hunt them as atrophyspecies. It's up to theWyoming Legislature, meeting early this year,to decideon the issue.
Even if an agreement is reached, that leavesanimalrightslawyers to act-and they're a species that's never endangered.

-Thomas McIntyre


Well, I think that if Idaho can be saved, it's all the better.

We exterminated the wolves 200 years ago, we have been the natural predator since then, and we've been doing one heck of a job at it, now these wolves are only going to help spread CWD, and, ofcourse, help manage the elk herds, but exactly how more humane is it, for an elk to get his guts ripped out alive, his throat torn, and his anus bitten, before he dies? I think the elk would prefer getting shot with a .300 Win Mag, and run 200 yards, set down, and die, most likely still in shock from the bullet impact, and not feeling too much while bleeding, since the shock lasts about 5 minutes or more, and then after that, the pain starts to sink in.

At least the elk gets to die in privacy, with much less pain, and for each hunting liscence sold, that's more money to the government, to help ward off taxes.