I truly wish you and your fellow Arizonan’s the best in defeating these nuts. We don’t need wolves in the lower 48 nor are they needed for the ecosystem, did just fine without them for many years.
History would take exception with your statement. The mass deer starvations on the Kaibab Plateau in the early part of the 20th century along with the deer overpopulation problems at Yellowstone earlier than that were in part due to overcontrol of deer predators such as wolves, mountain lions and the like.
"Playing God in Yellowstone" by Alston Chase goes into a very detailed review of how the deer population was impacted by well-meaning folks who depending on the era made poor predator control decisions that resulted in deer populations rapidly expanding, irrupting and then rapidly declining.