You are dead on with this!!!!!

It's one thing to re-introduce an animal that makes the ecosystem better with data from relevant studies to back that up. It's something else completely to re-introduce something based on emotion and completely lacking a RELEVANT study. They are not the same thing and can only be compared through complete and udder blinding ignorance!

I don't care about studies from Canada or Alaska. Many studies should have been conducted HERE! A study that took into consideration the dwindling winter habitat and the lack of ability of game to escape since they have to live in deeper snow than their ancestors due to humans building in low lying areas.

Did you know that a wolf with it's large paws and relatively low body weight can usually run on top of the ice crusted snow and the elk almost always break through and can hardly run at all making them an easy meal?