[quote=Dan S.]Yeah, well the funny thing is, once they eat the bulls and breeding age cows and calves, they'll either starve or have to learn to shop at Safeway.

You kill bulls, right? Are the elk there to feed you and you alone? Or is anything that inconveniences you and your hunt something we should get rid of? [End Quote]

I would compare it to introducing northern pike into your favotite steelhead rivers.
Sportsmen funded conservation organizations have worked for decades to improve habitat and wildlife populations.
Elk, mule deer, bighorn sheep, moose have flourished as a result.
The wolfhuggers take great pride in the fact that hunters are upset with the exploding wolf population .

I in NO WAY want to exterminate any species of wildlife.
If you control the prey numbers you simply have to control the predator numbers as well or be content to live with crashes in the numbers of both predator and prey.

There IS a sustainable medium to be had.