The management has been poor, and that's what citizens and hunters are criticizing. A few wolves are good. Trading a lot of elk for a lot of wolves is bad. You can't restore the land immediately from river carving, but over many decades it's possible some of that can come back. A lot of the regrowth has been in marginal areas. I think we can agree that wolves should be a part of the ecosystem, but what worries me is the lack of foresight and mismanagement of the wolf populations. In order to not destroy the ecosystem as it exists, to create a balance, we absolutely cannot have wolf populations growing at 300% unchecked. That has been the main argument of hunters, over-amplified by arms manufacturers and state economies that rely on elk hunting, and not considered by passive legislatures who underestimate the effects. Wolf reintroduction was a good idea with proper proactive maintenance which hasn't been seen. This will most likely turn ugly by current metrics, which is what those against the reintroduction worried about. No one hates wolves, everyone hates habitat destruction. If we're not heavy handed with wolves early, humans will be destroying the ecosystem twice.