“charismatic fauna like wolves.”
Say what??!!
Wolves are NOT charismatic unless one believes animals are as displayed by Disney or in the Ice Age movies.
Wolves kill whatever they can kill to eat. That could be your livestock, your pets and yes YOU are on the menu.
Wolves live, travel and hunt in packs meaning they can take down a bull elk and a full grown bison.
Being pack hunters they can destroy a herd of cattle in short order.
First they take the calves.
Every female calf killed is a decade of income down the drain because they never grow to replace themselves 10 times.
Every male calf killed is a steer that won’t make it to market (your table).
They also kill adult cattle which are kept for breeding purposes because they are THE BEST IN THE HERD. That decreases the QUALITY of the meat that does make it to your table.
Simple economics dictated the elimination of the wolf in the US.
The wolves now in the US are the much larger and more vicious CANADIAN wolf.
See my last post