BRUTAL - Your an idiot!!! The problem w/ you is that you buy into all this govt. B.S. Our schools dont even teach true and proper sciece anymore, its all extreme environmentalism, which ISNT science, its a philosophy, good or bad still a philosophy. My son is in the fifth grade and just this year got some real factual science and of that environmental BS.Scientific my A$$. The people runing these studyies only hire, promote, people who already support/agree w/ their agenda. You also ramble on about statistics and numbers, well my friend your talking to someone w/ a degree in economic and I gaurantee those numbers are manipulated consciously on unconsciously to point to the conclusion the administrators want. You included. Wolves are getting to be a problem I was raised in Wyo and saw thousands of elk EVERY trip through Yellowstone. last year we went through and didn't see a single elk!! I know this was a fluke and there are some still there, but that is still a drastic change it would have been impossible before the reintroduction. If you go through Cooke City to beartooth pass and back or Crandal creek and back you might see a moose if your lucky. I hunted that area for @20yrs and it was common to see 6-7 moose/trip, sometimes 10+ , ALWAYS at least three and every cow had a calf. I just went through w/ my family and we saw one cow w/ no calf. Thats drastic my friend. I stopped to talk to an old friend who is in her 90s and used to ride horseback into cody just to attend dances(several days each way mind you). She has more outdoor experience than the entire govt staff in yellowstone put together, and she'll tell you the wolves are in need of culling. By the way she doesn't raise livestock .On this same trip I saw @350 head of elk, I saw 3 calfs. I also suppose you think that nature will reach a balance, well contrary to all these brain washed college idiots nature does not "balance it swings violently from one extreme to the other, when the predators become to numerous the prey will plumet , w/ the predator following suit by starvation. The prey then repopulates and the predators follow suit until the cycle starts again. I dont knock your oppinion on wolves or love for them, but to asertain that everyday people who aren't "trained" are imbiciles and of no value scientifically is arrogant as well as ignorant. With this: your uneducated/stupid/ignorant/unusefull because you aren't degreed(brainwashed) is only showing that you are the irrelivant one here. If the people who are living in the area are complaining then it is a problem. They are...It is.