Hempy McNoodle
Well-known member
These things can be quite tricky as far as 'best policy' goes.ones opinion on this will no doubt be colored by where you live. the folks living with wolves while making their living from cattle and sheep will have a different view than someone in an apt in NYC that hopes to see or hear wolves while on vacation. ditto the guides & outfitters making a living from deer & elk hunters going out west on possibly a once in a lifetime trip. yeah, they too would think it is cool to hear/see wolves, but elk populations in some areas are but a shadow of what they once were since the re-introduction of wolves in some areas. hunters and fishermen, by the way, ponied up the money out of Pittman-Robertson taxes for all of that. wolves deserve to be there, but not protected to such a degree that they are detrimental to other species. in SOME areas, elk/deer had literally destroyed their habitat (riparian locales mostly) , and the wolves brought it all back into an ecologically level balance... it is a tricky balancing act to be sure. wolves = cool. too MANY wolves= not cool.