However, the fact that the Government has a lot invested inthis project and state DFGs will realize new revenues from license and tag sales in the trophy zone will make it very hard toswitch to a policy of wolf extermination.
1. It would not be hard for any of the continental states to switch to a predator-shoot on site-policy if they had THEIR way.
2.Tag revenue on wolves would always be paltry in comparison to tag revenue on Elk, deer, sheep, etc...definitely not worth it from an economic standpoint in terms of elk, etclost to wolf predation and a subsequent decrease in allotted elk tags to successfully manage the herd
Wild animals are the property of the state and the state is answerable to the will of the majority of the citizens, as misinformed as this majority might be.
You missed the big picture here. The states didn't want the wolves but have had the wolves shoved down their throat by the Fed because of a bunch of feel good treehuggers whose outlook on wildlife is described above.
That being said, I'm sure many people in the STATES in questionwouldn't mind having a small number of wolves as long as they were able to be totally managed by the state and hunted by the citizens.
I guarantee you that the USFW dept cares nothing for hunting license revenue in state "x" and lately the motives of the USFW seem to be motivated from the anti-hunting crowd, which should chap every hunter's arse.