This is just another story on the animal that is the true threat to human life–deer, not wolves.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is President of the Western Watersheds Project.
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You’re absolutely right, Ralph.
Here in Pennsylvania, 45,000 or so whitetails are killed on the state’s roads/highways every year. But that’s just the state Game Commission’s estimate. No one knows the true extent of the carnage.
…and lest we not forget, debilitating diseases too … deer ticks and Lyme disease
http://www.pesticide.org/pubs/alts/pdf/deer.pdf
… nor ONE and ONE HALF MILLION car accidents per year.