Good to hear from you. It has been a while.
Hard to know the wolf numbers. Lots of guessing. Several thousands ?
Wyoming might consider wolf numbers outside of Yellowstone to 10 breeding pairs and 100 animals.
The original government promise was for 300 inside Yellowstone Park only.
I thought of posting
this earlier but was wondering if it was appropriate.
It's a discussion on managing the environment delivered some years back. It's a little lengthy, an hour and a half or so, but skip forward to 0:39 for a good analysis of what the clusterf*** and mismanagement the federal gov't had created in Yellowstone Park with good intentions.
Note that I do not endorse the protection of wolves (or coyotes or cougars or bears) at this time, populations have increased and overflowed into ranch lands and populated areas threatening livestock and in some cases humans. The point is the sheer stupidity of trying to micromanage a complex system by governmental regulatory institutions pressured by know nothing environmentalists and do gooders.
This doesn't end with the problems that are happening with predators in the west, it's also happening with the over population of white tail deer in the east where hunting is highly restricted in areas and gun ownership is threatened. When I was a kid in upstate NY, we would just shoot a deer that was munching away at our vegetable garden and call it supper. Woodchucks, raccoons and wild dog packs were fair game and farmers would pay a bounty for tails. Coyotes were none existent then, now they're abundant...and the farmers are extinct.
Some things don't mix well, like sharks and swimmers, like sodium and water, like our current government and reality.