It makes you wonder why anyone in their right mind would reintroduce dangerous predators to an area which really does not need them. Until you look at things like this:
Buffalo Commons or recall the UN Agenda 21 crowd, who are still hard at it. (Algore's great global warming/climate change dogma and pony show ties in really well).
The folks around here (Western North Dakota) politely listened to the proponents of the Buffalo Commons concept and then politiely asked them to go back to New Jersey where they came from.
That does not stop the desire to implement this crap, not the actual implementation thereof, it just means they have to be sneakier.
Great post. You have to understand the whole project behind placing large predators in the area. The Wildland Project is now re named the ReWilding Institute. Dave Foreman is on the board. Remember him Mr Eco-terrorist himself start the Earth First Journal wrote a book on eco-terrorism. In fact the Unabomber had a copy of the Earth First journal is his shed that he called a home. Now you research some more and will find the stated goal is to reduce the human population of America to 10 million people. Giving up everything else to the animals.
of course, the Buffalo Commons is basically coming to fruition by default, as the depopulation of the northern plains continues apace, and Ted Turner is the only bid around for real estate.