I believe it was anti-hunter Roger Caras who helped get the pro- wolf movement going back in the late 1960s.
I remember some get-together with Ron Ely back in the early 1970s, in which his lion or tiger on a leash attacked someone at a get together. I believe Roger Caras was present at that.
Back in 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ( Ed Bangs ) kicked off its “Northern Rockies Wolf Recovery Project” with the release of imported, exotic Canadian timber , Huge wolves in Yellowstone National Park. . At that time, Yellowstone’s northern elk herd was 20,000 elk living in the park and in the adjacent areas.
Then, the experimental, non-essential Canadian gray wolf population of the Greater Yellowstone Area decimated the elk, deer, moose .. local populations.
Next stop : destroying Washington, Oregon ...