You could also get away with it on the basis of that area or state not being part of their home range. I read awhile back on another forum (www.huntamerica.com) that a guy had shot a Timber Wolf in Nebraska?? and was not prosecuted as they weren' t normally found there and he was hunting coyotes. Awhile back there was an article in one of the hunting rags about wolves and one game biologist said that if left unchecked there was nothing to keep them from spreading all the way to Mexico eventually.