this is a very soar subject with a lot of people. Especially with the people i know that live in Wyoming. They all dont mind the wolves, what they do mind is that the wolves are not being held in check too. In yellowstone many people have witnessed wolves killing for the sake of killing because they were bored. Also, when pack levels reach high numbers they can start tohave a severe effect on the populations of elk and deer. This year when they opened wolf season in wyomingthey shot 60 of them in the throughfare outside the park during the first week. They shut it down due to a tie up in legislation but i think i read there going to open it up again to make the wolf a big game animal.

Wolfs need to be held in check just like every other animal, unfortuanatly we do not live in the 1600's anymore and wolfs cant be used as a primary method of control. Human populations are too large, and our land use is far to consuming to actually have large wolf packs. Also, large wolf packs have severly effected money coming into states like Idaho and Wyoming. Many hunters have seen a drop in elk populations and many outfitters have felt the dangers a large wolf population brings to there business.

Also, another problem with peoples wolfs arguments. The wolfs that were reintroduced to the park, wyoming and idaho are not native wolfs, they are the canadian timber wolf, which what i was told is a lot different then the grey wolf.Even though there called grey wolveson the paper many people claim this to be innaccurate.This wolves are a lot more aggressive and do a lot more damage. Canadian ranches pay people to shoot them up there just as farmers in the states will let just about anyone coyote hunt.

Wolfs need to be held in check we do not live in world where the can roam and do as they please anymore, sorry naturalist people, there are just way to many factors in this world today, everyone wants there peice of the pie and well man wants most of the pie.