Originally Posted by
fritz1
That is what the problem is, people are uninformed and think they know it all.
Sorry, but even the biggest wolves in Alaska and Canada top out below 180lbs. The biggest wolf ever recorded in NA weighed 175 lbs, and that was back in 1939 in AK. The average wolf in MT, ID, and WY is going to be ~100lbs for a male and ~85 for a female. Those must have been some small wolves we had 100 years ago if the ones we have now have 100lbs on them. If you have seen very many wolves, you would know a 130-140lb wolf is a BIG wolf.
Wolves have never been eradicated from MT, and they have been coming south from Canada long before they introduced wolves to YNP. The problem isn't what type of wolf we have, the problem is they were allowed to increase their numbers above what the habitat can sustain.
SSS isn't the answer, doing so will just make it easier for the environmentalists to keep the wolf listed.