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If there are too many of them, they'll kill too many other animals, and might start starving or eating each other from lack of prey.
It's not cuz Alaska hates them, it's because there is too many of them.
There are more animals that are endangered, I know this might be hard since there is so many people that love wolves, but it's got to happen. Just like that there is too many humans *IN MY OPINION* it'll be bad for the whole area they are in.

Sharks are fish, not mammals.

And technically, we ARE their prey. If we're stupid enough to go near them where we can be hunted.

But everything you said was right. Wolves aren't endangered, and yet so many other animals are. And they're just as - if not more - important than wolves.

There are even wolves and other canids far more endangered than the Grey Wolf but most people don't seem to care or even know about them.
For example, the Ethiopian wolf & the African Wild Dog.

& there are so many felines that are endangered and even critically endangered.
And that's only sticking to the 2 most popular groups of animals on AS.

Exactly, wolves don't need to be saved any more. Other animals are dropping dead and no one cares because they don't need like 7 other of their kind to take down 1 prey.

I'm going to sound like a smarty pants and jerk, forgive me.

EVERYONE has to remember that AS was founded on Balto and The Lion King. Of course the members here will care more about Canids and Felines.

I am only 15. At 12 or 13, I decided to make wolves my passion, my career. I have done extensive internet research for about 3 years. i know it doesn't really seem like a lot but i feel as if it is. So, I am a biased party in an argument like this;

By the way, something just occured to me- most people are biased. Alot of people here are so biased they are at the extreme parallels of thought. I AM BIASED. I love wolves more than anything, and I can't help but think 'dirty humans, killing off beautiful wolves'. I cannot help it! I am a biased party, too attatched to the situation to look at anything from an intellectual view. So, I feel as if this is the main area of communication error, or future commmunication error.

Although wolves are no longer endangered, and although it is a good idea to relocate, it's true relocating certain numbers in certain areas is going to be bad. This is why I commend Mission: Wolf sanctuary in Montana. They use wolves as Ambassadors in schools, telling the students the fact from the fiction. A group like this could plead to city officials, and could erase some tension. This could make a relocation attempt work. Although, I think of coyotes as more pests... I mean, you hear it a lot. Coyotes stealing pets and small children from backyards. What about the Polar Bears that migrate to find food? Are they pests too? Or are our human civilizations roach hotels to them?

Perspective.(Am I just integrating into thought willy nilly? Sorry)

Basically saying if you're going to call wolves pests, you may as well call moose, and deer, and bears pests, too.


I'll Be Back.

It costs alot of money to relocate, which they may not, or do not want to waste their money on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; Crusading for wolves at all costs =/= wolf conservation.

I know where you're coming from with the part where you mentioned wolves being your passion - I am exactly the same.
Wolves are my passion as well.

I'm already working towards actually working with them.
I've met Shaun Ellis, one of the leading people in current wolf conservation efforts.
I've read up on wolves and other canids on the internet and in books.
I'm saving to take several courses on wolves.
I'm getting help to get into animal jobs which will work me into working with wolves.

Even so; I am capable of looking at the entire situation objectively.
Simply joining in with the "omfg hunters r so mean they shuld all b killed!!11!!" is not going to help.
Farmers in the US are more in need of help. They don't know how to deal with it other than shooting the wolves - the wolves are killing their cattle; their livelihood. They lose their cattle - they lose their homes.
People giving them trouble for shooting the wolves doesn't help. What would help is teaching them how to keep their herds safe.
In a lot of places wolves haven't lived in those areas for years; now they're back and the people aren't used to them and how to deal with them.

The MOST annoying aspect is people having a go at hunters for doing something LEGAL.
If you want to be against something actually ILLEGAL then do so against the poachers who are killing wolves who actually are protected in Europe. Wolves in America and Canada are doing fine - European wolves are not.

/ended here for now because my computer fails and is lagging. =.=;

I believe bile is some sort of digestive acid. And i know the Chinese use to use Tiger bones in medicine.

This outright murder of wolves needs to end

Did you read what other people posted? It needs to be done.

It's not 'murder'. Murder is illegally killing other human beings on purpose.
it's merely population control, as wolves are overpopulating in Alaska and need to have their numbers lowered.

It would cost too much.