And the game animals no longer have their traditional wintering grounds or the ability to move around to find places to excape. Many, if not most, of those areas happen to be the same places we like to live and build cities and towns. This forces those same game animals to live out the winter not only with less food than when wolves last chased them but in deeper snows. Advantage.....Wolves.

I love the thought of wolves and have had four separate chances to harvest one all in Alaska while hunting other big game. Never have. Likely never will. Just not on my bucket list as much as dall, moose or mountain goat so I am not of the "kill to kill" every wolf camp.

I just do not believe we can add in a new apex preditor without drastically changing hunting in Washington for all prey species. Not with how bad we have screwed up the balance of nature. Sal said it best.....We are the cancer that makes reintroduction a bad idea.