It makes me ill too. The issue is really complex and not at the same time. It's truly a cultural thing, kind of a parallel to the gun culture. There is a minority of those who just want to kill them all and made it hard to reintroduce and keep them safe, the politicians who do their bidding, and the whackos with guns and traps who just have a blood lust to satisfy and wolves are hated by them and their ilk which gives them their own personal justification. And then there are those who appreciate the importance of wolves in the ecosystem, that they are sentient beings an have respect for nonhuman life forms in general, and the there are those who just love wolves like many of us love kitties. Even though the ESA mandates that something be done to restore threatened and endangered species, like the gun nuts, it's all about gov't control, taking away guns, black helicopters and not realizing that the only reason there are elk to hunt is because the F&G agencies mange for an over population so they can kill something- a self fulfilling prophecy sort of thing that works for the corporate people and their politicians that they own.
I honestly believe that the hunting crowd have been manufactured to believe they have a heritage at stake so that the MIC and gun mfg cabal can have advocates. The wildlife is only acceptable if they can kill it, and if not, they can't handle it and so the F&G agencies are told to allow for hunting of the predators with the veiled excuse of gaining acceptance for them, because they are letting the wolf haters kill them. There's so much BS surrounding the whole issue that you could build a land bridge like structure across the Pacific with it.
On Edit: The truth is that the reintroduction was favored by over 70% of Americans both nationwide and in the states where the reintroductions took place. Sound familiar?
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