There we go, while fencing National Parks goes against the idea of the park. It's the only way to let the pro wolves people have there wolves without pushing them onto people that don't want them. While it sounds like an "extreme" plan, I am afraid at this point its going to take some extreme to push back.
The trouble is you give an inch, the environmental groups take a mile. The original plan was for 10 BP per state of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. That number was reached years ago, but the environmentalists both inside government and out fought to keep them listed. We are now much, much higher in those 3 states, and the enviro's are pushing to keep them listed today, now they want 5000 wolves. Any bets if they get it locked down in the courts again, when they hit there new number they will want 8000 or 10000?
Washington State was never in the initial plan, yet the enviro's are up to there elbows to push for 15 BP in this state with there Wolf propagation plan, it should be noted that there 3 plans has no actual management of the wolves, just propagation. Learning from the past, any bets when we hit 15 they will push for 20 or 25?
Utah is working to keep wolves out of there state, they were never in the initial experimental plan, yet guess who is fighting them? Give them an inch, they take a mile.
While incredibly expensive, keep them in the National Parks if the Feds with the ESA want wolves. Keep the population at a reasonable level and let them observe them. I think it would be a great experiment, and under controlled conditions I think a lot of the wolf myths propagated by the enviro's would be exposed.
Shootmoore
