They should blame talk radio and Sarah Palin instead.
2 winters back in my GMU, they had a secret emergency meeting over wolves. Palin found the funding for a week of heli time. They got 88 wolves in 3 days before the greenies caught wind of it and got an injunction, ha ha; too cool. By then the had got the dumb ones that had never been shot at before and needed new snow anyway. Bottom line, Palin once again did the right thing.
You watch, before long they'll be cutting back on elk hunting down there to feed the wolves.
I had wolves in my garbage cans about 2 months back at 3 am, nuts. The tracks were 5 1/2 inches long and single lope prints were close to 5 foot apart. They came in 2 different nights. I set up my game camera and moved junk around; taped a flashlight to the AR with acog and then they never came back. We had thrown some old salmon from freezer in the one can and that's what attracted them in. First time I have ever had wolves walking around nx to my shed.
That's exactly what I was about to post! Great minds.