Of course the wolves ate them, why is that such a mystery to these idiots?
Maybe they will now repopulate Yellowstone with jackrabbits they catch in west Texas. Always going to be a job for these folks.
It's not a mystery. They just don't want to admit that it is their own fault.
Environmental groups will rage on and on about this or that business activity being the cause of some negative environmental effect, no matter how low the probability of it being true. But no "environmental group" will ever concede that a negative effect was caused by an environmental group's attempt to fix things.