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I understand you. But this is not a wild land anymore. I want them all back too! But the idea of getting these animals back to natural levels (in as much as that idea accounts for no humans) is not realistic at any level. It will never happen.
That we can have any areas in all states that are populated with some number of every animal that belongs, is in its self a difficult goal. And its self should be the goal.
Trophy licenses should be sold to hunters for "exotic" species at a high price for culling populations or destroying individual animals that are sick or that have been designated a threat based on attacks. The money should be used to fund conservation efforts and reintroduction efforts. There should be strict regulation by unemotional experts.
You cannot hunt wolf in Wisconsin or Minnesota like you can deer or birds. The DNR often uses the public for needed culling but there is a special process. It is not "normal". For example, culling the deer herds here when there was an outbreak of a variation of "mad cow" disease. Hunters were given tags to hunt and destroy large numbers of the population. Though the problem is on going.
Humans must be the predators now, it is necessary. And from time to time (quite often actually) the more exotic animals have to be killed. All I am saying is this should earn money for conservation, not add cost. The people who pay those fees (should be in the thousand$) should be allowed to keep the animal, after it has be examined by wildlife experts.
