Funny thing is when I was in college I took zoology. I remember the whole predator/prey cycle. You have an excess number of prey species, suddenly as if by magic their starts to be more predators. The predators eat their way through the prey, lowering their numbers, causing the excessive numbers of predators to starve to death. The lower number of predators allows for the prey to increase their numbers, causing the number of predators to also increase and so on and so on. By introducing man into the equation he limits the predators, and the prey which balances the cycle so that there isn't the highs and lows. The damn wolf lovers, by allowing them to overrun their prey(carrying capacity) will lead to disease and starvation of the very animal they claim to love. We can have both elk and wolves and bears and deer, but we can't control the deer and elk via hunting, and allow the others to run wild. Because there isn't the high end of the predator prey cycle in regards to prey because we limit the numbers, you thusly can't have predators on the high end or your eco system is out of balance. In an environment that is completely wild(pre man) the predator/prey cycle swings back and forth, excess then starvation, over and over. However with man, the cycle doesn't have its highs and lows in the prey, so it can't have them in the predators either. Wolves aren't evil, nor are bears, but they aren't sacred either. Let me hunt elk, deer, bears, and wolves. Funny how we hunt elk, ducks, whitetails, coyotes, cougars, etc. and there numbers keep bouncing off all time highs. Species that the enviros are "protecting" seem to be dying off and/or strugling to survive. Perhaps our way of doing things is more productive and thusly conductive to healthy populations, perhaps us rednecks might know a thing or two. Perhaps, and this is just a thought, there are all these animals here in the west because we watch out for them and yes even kill them, and there aren't in San Francisco, New York, etc because they were loved to death?
