I am saying Kill em all in Washington for now. Not because I hate wolves but because I fear (fear not know)what will happen. Montana and Idaho seem to have a problem. The population of wolves has had no problem taking hold and growing. I suspect it would be no diffrent here except we have no where near the surplus of animals they once enjoyed. I may never hunt Elk again but It is something I would hate to loose for those who want to do it.
Lets face the facts we are here to stay and wildlife must be managed by us. It may very well be possible to sustain a wolf population and a havestable herd of deer and elk in this state. If Idaho and Montana are sucsessful then bring em on. It looks easy to get them established. Getting rid of them if they get out of hand may only cost us the money and enjoyment we get from what we now know as big game hunting in this state and a bunch of money we don't have. Maybe I am misinformed but it isnt even the same animal that was native to these areas. I guess when we run out of wild steelhead we can replace them with wild atlantic salmon. It would be sorta the same thing and we will feel good about seeing fish in the river again even if it means we cant fish for 5, 10 maybe 20 years while we wait for nature to balance out.
Hey I thought it would be cool to have turkeys around too. My brother has a house on a little piece of land not to far out of Spokane.
When he built it he was hoping to have turkeys on it some day.
A few years later he spotted the first one then a year before last he counted over a 120 he could see at one time from his kitchen. Turkey huntin isn't all that special when ya have to check your boots for turkey crap before ya go into the garage to take em off. Now he just hopes wolves like turkey more than his dogs.