Wow. Gotta love the logic here vs fact. Sounds like some would give up hunting to allow the wolf, lion etc to return to maximum strength. I was hunting bear in Idaho with a bear/lion/elk guide. He rode mule with F&G to try to track a single male lion in winter that had killed eleven elk in three weeks. Just ate a chunk of hindquarter off each. It is true that predators will reduce in number when the food source is reduced. So what! That means when there is nothin left to hunt for us. I think we got by just fine controlling game pops with hunting. With modern populations and development how much predator help do we need? This whole bambi thing of romanticising the wolf or lion is a bunch of scat. Just another example of humans that have no desire to control their own consumption and growth trying to manipulate nature. Sometimes it works well like when reintroducing game animals but the goal there is for them to expand to provide hunting, watching and revenue opportunities. Predators will do the opposite. You won't see them, they will eliminate the very resource we spent so much on expanding and then they will eat yer cattle, dogs, cats and eventually a kid or two and generate zilch in revenues. They just don't make sense in populated states.