That’s what most politics is these days, it seems.

Or were at high risk of being killed in the near future.

Black bears attack humans on a regular basis, but I don’t think they kill them very often, as opposed to grizzlies (often as a percentage of attacks).

I was asking more about the diet, not about the threat to an individual human in an attack (which is substantially higher for a grizzly), but the two topics are related. My understanding is that grizzlies will attack and kill large game (including humans), which is something black bears don’t do.

Is it really just slightly different? Grizzly bears are a lot bigger.

The wolves will help with that.

To be clear, I don’t have children and I still don’t want there to be a ton of wolves around when I’m outside.

Yeah 15,000 years is a blink of an eye from a broader evolutionary perspective. Humans have lived in much of the rest of the world for much, much longer. Even seemingly remote places like Australia have been occupied by humans for many times longer.

In the past 30 years there haven’t been a lot of wolves around people. With populations growing at 25 percent per year, that definitely will increase.

I’m pretty sure you didn’t word your last sentence correctly, because I don’t think children are a threat to people or wolves.

They don’t have to be free roaming in the sense of being able to go anywhere they want, but many ranches have quite a bit of land that the cattle can roam. There are bison ranches around, so it’s definitely doable.

Seems like that might be the hardest place to achieve that and avoid conflicts with humans. But the way you listed it above it sounds like they could be in the southern cascades OR the NW coast (which I take to mean Olympic peninsula/national park).

Wolves don’t ask your permission.

Cattle is good for the planet in many of these areas, not bad for it. The US was home to millions and millions of bison not very long ago, and cattle provide many of the same ecosystem services when allowed to graze. Ideally we’d have bison, but cattle do a good job in their stead.

Native Americans actually haven’t lived here very long, according to the current understanding of anthropology.

What national parks don’t allow camping? All of the ones in Washington do.

I’d rather not have a ton of wolves around when I go outside. Probably a lot of people with children feel the same way.

Or just normal people who enjoy the outdoors.

Wouldn’t 33 packs mean well over 15 or 18 breeding pairs?