It's unfortunate that wolves are being controlled in the courts, instead of in the outdoors, as they should be. Michigan residents voted several years ago for "sound scientific management"......that turned out to be a crock of B.S. after the recent defeat of our dove season and the current wolf fiasco! As long as there are large populations in big cities that are fed and believe the 'bambi' version of wildlife (where all the little animals dance and sing in the forest on a bed of pretty flowers), we will have those that feel that NO animals should be controlled....they'll do it themselves. The resulting calamity of up and down cycles will be catastrophic. The fact that MI's DNR tries to play down the amount of deer taken by wolves with propaganda from the antis doesn't help matters either.
....but in the mean time, wolfs will continue to eat all the elk, domestic dogs, and eventually children....but that's O.K. as long as they are able to 'dance and sing'.
I don't think anybody wants to see wolves eliminated from their areas, but to reintroduce a species without a plan for the eventual population boom that will most likely occur due to federal and state protection is not only stupid, but criminal.......and, sadly, typical of most government run programs.