Well said, wyogreff! The wolves here are getting way out of hand. Elk numbers have declined drasticly, and contradictory to what the scientists, most of whom happen to live where the effects of wolves are unfelt, say the wolves dont just kill the weak and the young. And they dont always eat what they kill, sometimes they just kill for the sake of killing. Its past time the wolves were delisted. They have expanded so far out of the "Yellowstone Ecosystem" that its rediculous. The wolves have even moved on to different mountain ranges! And the USFW says that our plan of listing them as predators outside of the parks isn't going to keep up numbers? GIVE ME A BREAK! Even with the dual listing well still have one heck of a time thinning the varmints out. The G&F needs to get a clue. You know the saying 20/20 hindsight? Well the USFW's hindsight must be a little blury. I just finished reading Alaskan Adventures by Russell Anabell, and several of his stories are about the wolf problem Alaska had several years ago. Their problem sounded so much like ours that it was eerie. The wolves that were supposed to "help keep local animal herds at healthy numbers" slaughtered all of the game animals, nearly to the point of extinction in a few areas. And all of the while Alaska's G&F wouldnt let people hunt them. It got to the point where the government had to hire gunmen in planes to keep the wolves in check, and to save Alaska's game animals. So why doesn't the USFW pull their heads out and delist the wolves before we have to hunt them just to save our elk herds?