I thought we didn't have any human-free habitat to send them to anyway? (remember the assertion about bear attacks because there isn't enough habitat left?) So we'd just be shipping the problem animals to someone else's backyard right?
It already happens. Look at the re-introduction programs for the grey wolf. This was probably decided by some jokers iving in Manhattan. Well, as predicted by those living cose to the land, the range of the wolves has spread, and is driving ranchers out West to distraction.
I know of a couple of recent spottings of panther in Michigan's UP, from first hand accounts ( panther haven't been seen up there for a long time ). The DNR in Michigan denies the sightings.
As far as human-free habitat, some of that comes from NIMBYs who decide that it would be wonderful to live in a planned subdivision out in the sticks ( 'getting back to nature, don't you know, with city water, electricity, natural gas, and cabe TV' ) without considering the fact that bears aren't cuddly, panthers don't eat Whiskers for their meals, and deer are nothing more than rats with big ears and long legs.