[Righty1]

By your logic all mammalian predators, poisonous reptiles and arachnids, as well as sharks should be dispatched from the planet forthwith. Coyotes bite many more people than wolves, deer are involved in many fatal car crashes, cougars like to eat female joggers and grizzlies are about as dangerous as an animal gets. I don't understand the preoccupation with wolves?

[Judith Anne]

Well, the article WAS posted about wolves. Maybe it's just this thread. ;-D

[toddst]

By your logic all mammalian predators, poisonous reptiles and arachnids, as well as sharks should be dispatched from the planet forthwith. Coyotes bite many more people than wolves, deer are involved in many fatal car crashes, cougars like to eat female joggers and grizzlies are about as dangerous as an animal gets. I don't understand the preoccupation with wolves?

That's not what I said or implied. I'm opposed to the re-introduction of wolves to areas within the US where they have been eliminated. They are ferocious predators and create threats to humans now occupying space where re-introduction is being carried out. Further, the wolves are provided excessive protection from being destroyed by people who are threatened.

Coyotes are another matter. They have extended their range way beyond their original boundaries and are very destructive to small game populations nationwide. In my area they are classified as a pest and can be hunted all year (other than during deer seasons.)

If the wolf is re-introduced then people should not be prevented from protecting themselves and their livestock from them. If protection of self and property is not part of the program then re-introduction of wolves becomes a part of the effort to push people off the land. Not acceptable.