I've sat and read through a lot of these "anti-wolf" threads and for the most part I take what's said with a grain of salt. I prefer to keep my opinions on this to myself - mostly because I couldn't disagree with you more and partly because I don't have the time nor do I have the inclination to argue over the internet.

Your statement above, however, does make me want to voice an opinion. Let me emphasize "opinion" because that's exactly what it is - my opinion. You and many others won't agree with it. You probably won't even like it, but as they say: Oh well.

Above, you essentially said that without some sort of management and/or control wolves would be killing children / livestock / pets. I take it that the "management / control" you refer to is killing them. While I disagree with the view, I'll concede that where livestock is concerned, you may be correct in that it would be the only sure-fire way to prevent some degree of predation. When it comes to children and pets, however, exterminating wolves is a cop-out.

If there are apex predators in the area, a responsible parent or pet owner should keep both protected and out of harms way, and that does not necessitate killing all the wolves, bears, cougars, poisonous snakes, etc. in the country.

How typically human (or inhumane) of us to see a threat and react by condoning the extermination of the entire species instead of taking precautions and learning to co-exist with it. Hell, let's not limit it to the animal kingdom. We practically did the same thing to the Native Americans. Let's see - they live where we want to live and they're capable of killing us so let's exterminate them. It's the only viable solution, right?

No it is not, just in case you were wondering.