EKM even though the same thing happened to the Native Americans as did the wolves you can't mix apples and oranges. One is human politics and the other is wild animals. The whole point of wolf re-introduction is simply conserving wild animals in wild places. Native Americans are human and are subject to laws and society. Since this is a big game forum I'll leave my opinion out of it but yes it is a poor analogy.

Everyone keeps saying how wolves sport kill and leave animals after eating a small portion. I read an article in National Geographic and wolves do indeed return to a kill. Sometimes a bear will get there first but the basic point is the meat does not get wasted and nature finds its balance. In other words in the big picture nothing gets wasted and the predators eat only what they need to substain. Wolves are opportunistic hunters. Meaning if given the chance they kill more than they can eat in one sitting BUT THEY DO RETURN. Some of you have witnessed part of this process but because you didn't see it through you didn't realize what you were really seeing. Like BigBulls pointed out a lot of these wolves were probably run off and not given the chance to finish the process in the above examples.

The average wolf can only eat 15-20 lbs in one sitting if it is on an empty stomach. So naturally if a pack of 10 kills 2 elk thats about 500 lbs of meat but those wolves will not even be able to eat one entire elk(200lbs max). Wolves only have a kill rate of 8%, meaning 92% of the time they strike out. So when they can kill more than one animal they do. But they'll come back and feed.

These facts I obtained from National Geographic. If you disagree, take it up with them.

Noway, I agree that wolves should not be allowed to roam free without fear of man and unbounded. I say delist them and lets hunt them. Within controlled amounts of course. Set a popluation objective and tags should be issued to meet that.