[skeet]

And I doubt if you really want to. Humans (as you call us) already played God if you want to call what we did with the bison and other critters playing god. I really don't look at it the way you do. We were given dominion over the earth by Him. At least that is what I understand from the bible. OK so we as humans screwed it up..ok..so now we have a bunch of people screwing it up again. Just because we have people, such as you seem to be, feeling bad about what was done in the past these same people think they should intervene again. Do I want to see wolves erased from the earth??..of course not! Did we need them reintroduced..really the answer is no. There were already wolves here. But the do gooders just had to do their good deeds(which they lied about from day one) in someone elses back yard. Now that the problem has gotten into a runaway train type of thing. They will not let the people that live here fix the problem. Do the locals want to wipe the wolves out? No of course not. But the local people have had no say and are not allowed to even protect their own property from a problem created by the same outsiders.. They started out wanting 100 breeding pairs in the Yellowstone eco-system. Even at the lowest estimate they feel there are more than 500. That is WWWAAAAYYYY too many in this small an area. I live more than 80 miles from the Yellowstone area. Between the wolves Grizzlies and weather the elk in the area are hurting. Hunting seasons and limits are way down. Calling an elk in the area is like ringing a dinner bell for the wolves...and a shot draws a grizz...and the moose in many areas are almost gone completely. This isn't just about hunting. In an area as vast as Alaska..natural predation will work...but when you have an area populated as it is with ranches cows and sheep the decision to turn wolves into this small an area was at best stupid...at the worst near criminal. BTW even if you don't think so...this decimation of wolves and other things happened in Europe(even by your ancestrors in Poland) centuries ago.. What do you expect of people?? The people that live here just expect to be able to run their own state without interference from tree huggers from Calipornia...or Maryland...and especially Washington. They weren't able to kill all the wolves before...and they won't be able to now.