The bottom line is: As long as the Rocky Mountain ecosystem has an apex predator armed with rifles, the ecosystem needs no wolves.
Every elk or deer eaten by wolves is a deer or elk which will not be going into some hunter's freezer. And each one eaten accounts for several big game tags which will not be sold.
And what is the annual elk kill per wolf again.
Based just on game killed by wolves, there is no justification for reintroducing them to this ecosystem. And that is without counting the cattle and sheep killed each year. We lost enough livestock to coyotes, we sure as hell do not need to be battling wolves as well.
The only good wolf is a dead wolf.
