ORIGINAL: SP10
It is a good thing you live 1900 miles away, otherwise you would be paying a lot of fines and maybe doing some jail time. Wolves are not going to go directly from a listed species to an animal with no bag limits and no closed season as you seem to want.
Re-introduction of wolves into Wyomingrepresents a large investment on the part of the Government and is popular with the general public. If any hunting of wolves is eventually allowed it will be throughstrictly managed big game hunts with tags expensive and hard to come by. Furthermore, once wolves become a game animal, the state DFG will have a strong incentive to keep populations healthy to maximize revenue from license and tag sales. The thing they are least likely to tolerate is some yahoo running around shooting every wolf he can find.
SP10: Sounds like you are wrong. It is time to kill all those bloody wolves in the lower-48 states. They have plenty of freedom and range in Canada and Alaska. They are a scourge and a blight. What a ridiculous boondoggle that was to deliberately reintroduce them back into the lower 48 states. One of the worst examples of misplaced enviro-craziness. "Popular with the general public." Ya, the general public that is about as knowledgeable about these matters as to buy the depiction of the little creatures all living in harmony in Bambi. The wise and affable Mr Owl patiently and jocularly interacting with the rabbits and the grouse, as if he wouldn't swoop down on silent downy wings and sink his talons into the soft flesh of both of those two species, rip the lives out of them, and devour them with relish. Cute wolves. I have no more use for them than I have for coyotes, which isn't much.