Northwestalaska,

You make some valid points in regards to the wolf in Alaska. But Alaska has room and wilderness enough for the wolf.

Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming do not. This is obviously true, because the wolf could not find room enough to survive here or compete with humans, until the feds spent multiple millions of dollars to reintroduce it and told the ranchers to let the wolves eat their livestock or face federal imprisonment.

Watching those wolves take down and feed upon a herd of caribou was no doubt a thrilling sight. But the thrill is lessened when it is calves or lambs which you have nursed through the cold winter nights which are being slaughtered.

The predator-prey situation was fine in Idaho in about 1970. I never heard any complaints from Montana or Wyoming either that they had big game tags they could not give away. The Feds should have left well enough alone around here and those many millions of dollars could have been much better spent on something which was actually not harmful to the local human population.

I am anxiously waiting for Butch Otter to jump in his airplane with a few hundred pounds of hamburger and some 1080 to take care of the situation.

People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.