My feelings about the woves have already been expressed by poluke, Elkkampmaster, and Montanabob. I just read something regarding wovles that i think some of you would be interested in though. Famous outdoor writer Russell Annabel has a book called Alaskan Adventures, which is a compilation of some of his short stories, and some of his stories are about the wolves in Alaska in the mid 1900's. The long and short of his stories is the feds decided to protect the wolves in Alaska when they were spreading, much like the situation we have now, and the wolves spread like wildfire (once again this strongly resembes the situation we have now). Like someone already said on this post, the wolves dont just kill the weak animals, and in Alaska the wolves started slaughtering entire herds of game animals, in one account Annabel says he found a spot where a pack of wolves killed over 300 dall sheep , and only one or two of them were even eaten. Like our elk herds now, Alaskas game herds started to plummet in numbers, and the government was forced to step in just to save their game animals from nearly being extincted. They had to spend a very large sum of money to hire local pilots and gunners to get the wolf population into check. Our current wolf situation here in Wyoming, and also in Montana and Idaho, sounds so much like the problem they had in Alaska fifty years ago that it floors me how naive the feds have been to the rising wolf problem. They should have seen it coming from a mile away, or should I say fifty years away. Something better get done about he wolves now, before we are forced to hire men to thin out the wolves.

Also, I am appaled at the feds rejection of our wolf plan here in Wyoming. We could start controling the wolves immediately if the feds would accept our plan, but instead they continue to refuse it. And the plan has been reviewed and deemed appropriate by an unbiased board of SCIENTISTS! Even our best science says our plan is a good one, but the feds still refuse it. WHAT AN OUTRAGE!