Frankly, I don't think a smaller animal can take care of the 110,000 surplus deer around here and not get all worn out.
Fur Shur they will be safer to use to clear dear than would, for example, a snow leopard.
Your state game department can even control the deer population, what makes you think they will be able to effectively control a wolf population? Plus you’ll have the Feds intervening and the enviros suing under the Endangered Species Act.
You won’t solve your deer problem, you’ll merely create a wolf problem.
The solution is cheap and plentiful doe tags allowing them to be hunted 365 days a year. If necessary pay a $20 bounty for every doe head brought in for a year or two.
Not that the numnutz lefties will allow it, but it would do the trick. The correct predator for the problem is man.