Wolf controversy

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Wolf Controversy

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There has been a lot of controversy over the reintroduction of the wolf into certain native parts of the United States including areas in the North West such as Yellowstone National Park . The reason for this controversy will be explored and two sides of the equation will be introduced in this . The support of this will be that wolves should be reintroduced to their native environment as part of the balance of the ecosystem in a

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The wolf has been a long member of the Yellowstone National Park until recent events in the past several decades had warded off the park 's authorities from allowing it to be in the park . The scare of the wolf is that it is a predatory animal and does not discriminate its prey from bear , fox , or human child . The wolf 's man enemy is man . With the controversy of whether or not to reintroduce wolves into the park , the main components which opposed this project were ranchers whose farms surrounded the park , and whose livestock were prey to this beast (Bales paragraph One . What further aggravated the situation was the fact that the Grey wolf (the main predatory wolf in the Park and in the Rockies was protected under the Endangered Species Act thus making it illegal for the ranchers to protect their livestock from the wolf , a person could be punished with up to a 100 ,000 fine and up to 1 year in jail for killing a wolf (Bales Paragraph Two . With this food source so readily available and ranchers being unable to legally kill a wolf , the controversy over the wolf 's return to the park is a major issue

Even in Yellowstone National Park however there were laws at its inception which favored the more docile creatures and left the main predators a source of fear , as Bales states , In the year 1916 the National Parks Service started to eliminate all predators in Yellowstone National Park , which meant killing 136 wolves , 13 ,000 coyotes , and every single mountain lion . By 1939 this program was shut down , but all the wolves were long gone before that (Bales Paragraph Four . This meant that during this time period the population of the wolf drastically dropped . It is because of this reason that the reintroduction of the wolf into the wild is such an important issue . Without the natural balance of predator and prey the harmony of the environment will suffer which will cause and influx of other unnatural disasters . These disasters can include overpopulation of the prey source without a natural predator to curb the race , large numbers of deer and other prey animals will overrun the park and the surrounding areas causing other types of devastation

With the above stated facts about overpopulation the idea of reintroduction of the wolf into the wild began a project through the Fish and Wildlife Services . The...