Excellent posts everyone! Kristy thanks for sharing your experience living in one of the areas that will be so heavily affected by this sort of ridiculous excuse for animal control.

I'm firmly convinced this is about developers and our ruining that land that has affected the elk, more so than any wolf pack. We have always been the top predator of our world but unlike other predators we never figured out "you don't crap where you sleep" (as my grandfather used to put it lol). I grew up with hunters who hunted for meat for the table, not trophies for the walls. Wolves don't pass an aged or infirm elk by to go for that prime breeding elk with the big rack...only we do that. The wolves just do what they are supposed to be doing...controlling population, culling the weak, the old, the infirm and the very young and keeping herds healthy and whole.