RandyA and lostwy, our own Fish&Wildlife Service figure that each wolf kills 1.5 elk per week, of course that is averaged over a year. With a 1000 wolves? I don't know the overall number, the only hard fact nuber I know of is that their are 400 wolves in Central Idaho. But guessing 1000 wolves? That comes to 1500 elk per week, 6,000 per month, 72,000 elk per year. If it seem high its because it is, they do kill a lot of elk, not just the weak and the sick. Thats a holywood bedtime story that many wolf lovers want people to believe. I just went to a Idaho Fish & Game meeting here in Idaho Falls last night. One the big issues was the wolves, they are trying to get permision to go in and remove (kill) packs of wolves in problems area's like in Central Idaho. Wolves are a problem all right a huge problem. I am not saying that we need to kill each and every one off, but we need to be able to control them. That means delisting them off the endangered speices list and managing them like a bear or lion. As far as them killing elk and other animals for fun well they do that quite a bit too.