I might suggest challenging the hypothesis that wolves are important by questioning what we lacked for the decades they were absent from our state. Did our economy suffer? Did the lack of wolves contribute to global warming? Suicide rates up? What do we have now that we didn't 25 years ago that is attributable to wolves?
Now that is a good equalizer for the topic without leaving any real room for an argument from a reasonable teacher! If not then you do not have a teacher you have an agenda pusher!