The reintroduction of wolves into the NorthWest wasn’t done because Ma and Pa missed seeing the wolves. They were reintroduced to drive the number of ungulates (deer, elk, moose) down so low that the Democrats could start screaming about stopping hunting. Democrats - they don’t mind guns as long as they get to decide who the guns are pointed at.
I was under the impression that they were reintroduced out of some wistful desire to restore the "balance' of nature.
Not only did they want to kill hunting, but the domestic cattle business as well. It's also about the Senate, in that if they can substitute urban bureaucrats for the people who work the land, they can take over these rural states with relatively little effort. So think of it as a feeding frenzy of interests, with the land and its people as the loser.