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They will hunt the elk and deer down until hunting season have to be closed.

This is not true. As I said, only about 1 in 4 hunts is successful. Wolves often do not succeed in their attempted kills. They will not eat down the entire population of elk and deer. There's this thing called reproduction, and they reproduce at a faster rate than the wolves pick them off.

Since you an expert I am sure you know who Dave Mech is. He study the Wolves 1975 in MN in an area no human hunters could get to. The wolves completely wipe out the deer in that area. The study was done in 1975. In 2002 Range magazine did an interview with him and he said Oh yes that is true and not only that but they still had not recovered. 27 years later the deer still had not recovered. So are you saying Dave Mech is lying? He also said he saw the wolves in Alaska completely wipe out snowshoe hares and Musk Ox in the area he was studying them.

People like you are idiots and are the reason hunting is becoming picked on more and more in society. Have you ever hear of Frank Glaser? Of course not, he was perhaps the most knowledgeable Wolf expert that ever lived. On fertile hunting grounds that held way animals than any place in the lower 48, the wolves decimated populations of Moose and Caribou. Right now there are pockets of land in Washington state and Idaho and even Wyoming that are wastelands because of wolves. Not only are they killing all the deer and elk, but they are also killing all of the predators (cougar/coyote). Reproduction only out paces predators who eat what they kill. As far as hunts only being successful 1 out of 4 times, that is BS. Maybe on dry ground during the summer and early fall, but not in snow during the winter. Do some research before you spew your “opinion”

Where do you live zoology major? In your little cubicle-right? You read all about our wildlife out west, and know more than us four-generation: farmers, ranchers, and loggers, who families moved here before Idaho was a state, and still a territory. My family punched the first railroad into Latah County, from Spokane, Washington. The job continued down the Julietta Grade, down by Kendrick.

My great-grandfather was one of the founding pioneers in Moscow, Idaho. My grandfather, father, and my husband now worked in the woods, camped, fished, hunted, all through the Lochsa River, Clearwater Basin, Selway Bitteroot area, and the Northfork of the Clearwater. Elk are now at a l0% population in this entire area. The wolves slaughtered them, and the IDF&G won’t even admit it. They will lose all their wolf money. People here hate the wolves, and if you come here, I wouldn’t say I was a wolf watcher, you haven’t been off your comptuter, or out into the backcountry of Idaho; the outfitters, hunters, and sportsmen hiking and inspecting wolf scats have told me the truth. These organizations lie.