Here is a good read about whether they should ever have been given protection.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/22/feds-mull-whether-to-remove-red-wolf-from-endangered-species-list.html
Up here in the Northeast we have coy-dogs some weighing up to 70 pounds. Coyotes were non existent here until the 1970's. Now they are the number one threat to our deer population. Supposedly they crossed with wolves from Canada at some point turning them into a much larger and more capable...