I agree 100% with you ranger. I am not saying that re introducing wolves into an area is a bad thing but you have to manage the population somehow. I am a biology minor in Universtiy and i can grasp this concept so why can't the proffesional biologist get it. Its not exactly rocket science. You have to limit the wolf population somehow or else they will keep growing until they have destoyed the herds. If they want to see the reintoduction program work it would be more beneficial to the wolves to have a lower population. Wolves have a fairly large territory and if there are too many wolvers per square mile then they will have difficulty being successful. They will begin to hinder each others progress. Which is excatly what seems to be happening, there are getting to be too many wolves and they will soon be starving each other. The population will eventually level itself off to a steady state but at what costs? Most of the deer/elk/moose will be gone. There is a little equation here we use in school that if you know the amount of wolves an ecosystem can support, the multiplication rate etc then you can calculate how many wolves you can remove and still keep the population at equalibrium. It was stated here above that the carrying capacity was 670 wolves, therefore no more than 335 can be removed at once. It may be such a thing that they remove 200 wolves now and 40 a year to maintain a balance, i am not sure of the exact figures because i don't have the data but i am estimating. Anyway you slice it though something has to be done.