I have read all the posts here on the subject and commented on a few. The fact of the matter is wolves will not work UNCHECKED and UNMANAGED in this day and age.
Towns and whole communites are at stake here where animal based business has established themselves. In these Western states where the Wolves have been reintroduced and are migrating people are starting to suffer and you are seeing it here on this site and elsewhere.
Hotel/Motel,Restuerants,Airlines,Small business just to name a few in this pyramid are going to suffer without the tourist dollar.
When good huntable numbers of our game animals have gone the tourist won't come with there dollar. Forget the recreation factor.
This is just hunting that I speak of. Ranchers too have much to lose as well as the folks they do business with.
This was an ill thought out plan of reintroduction WITHOUT A PROPER MANAGEMENT PLAN installed.
I am not a wolf hater or animal hater for that matter. We should all have a place on this earth.
WE manage everything in this day and age through neccesity and the Wolf should be no exception.
Hell think about it your a managed species through birth control to contol over population and its consequences.
We up the quotas for our game animals when they overgraze and in
FACT the wolf is here and it looks like it is established itself well. It is time to manage this species.
So for you people who don't live where the Wolf has an effect, think for a moment about the people who do and what they are facing and going through. Are they fed up and angry? Read some of the posts on wolves here. Some more than others have more at stake and you can see it through their anger in writing.
There were other causes that didnt effect me directly that I took a positve interest in because it made COMMON SENSE. Remember the Farmers,Miners,Steel Workers,Commecial fisherman and Loggers...Yah Maybe just maybe you where one of them and mad as hell. No different here