Since I retired in 1998 I've spent much of my time in the fight against the animal rights agenda. Harperc is right, it's about forcing people off the land. The introduction of the wolf was pushed by animal rights (AR) groups, such as the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) which, among other negative things, is an extremist anti-hunting group! As was mentioned by another poster -- the levels have been reached, which were previously agreed upon -- but now the AR groups say we still shouldn't be allowed to manage wolves! The intent by the AR groups, is to allow wolves to continue to expand until they decimate as many of our deer, elk and moose herds as possible! That will give us fewer hunting opportunities which will result in fewer hunters!
The extremist AR groups (and extremist environmental groups) are essentially made up of people with a misanthropic personality – they hate humankind far more than they love animals!
Those of us deeply involved in this fight also want to know why the AR groups think like they think. We've long recognized it's about forcing people off the land because the extremist AR suffers from a human self-loathing – a personality defect. It's not necessarily a mental illness but can be a symptom of a mental illness!
That being said – that doesn't mean the AR's aren't intelligent because many times the leaders of the extremist groups are very intelligent and use arguments that seem to make sense. However, they do have an agenda – so be careful not to buy into that agenda!
