As for the few “big bad wolves” you mention returning to their “former stomping grounds”, in my small corner of Montana a pack was removed last year that had thirty members. Even management agencies didn’t know for sure how many wolves were involved until they had become a problem with livestock. There are still more wolves in the same area. This story is getting repetitious all over the west. In this same area elk and deer populations have plummeted over the last few years. And no, winters have not been bad.

Even in the journals of early explorers like Lewis and Clark, large packs of wolves were never mentioned and they were never noted in the mountainous regions of the west.

I suggest that maybe we reintroduce a few wolf packs to your area of the mid west and let them run loose and basically unregulated for a few years and see if you still hold on to your current opinions. You obviously missed the point about wolves killing people and did not read any of the material that went along with the post. The premise that wolves won’t kill people is a false one, it’s a proven fact that they do and will in areas where wolf and human habitat overlap. However, if you would like to prove otherwise you could make a trip to Wollaston Lake in northern Saskatchewan and see what the wolves think about your chances of a coconut falling on your head.

As for wolves attacking humans…give me a break. Far more people die from coconuts falling on their heads. Let’s kill all palm trees!