That's very predictable. I don't take it personally. No other animal inspires such intense emotions, Bangs said. Mountain lions kill more big game than wolves. Lions attack livestock.
Lions even kill people.
The same guy will hear there's a wolf in the next county and be on the phone to the governor. Wolf advocates can be just as strident, he said. We had to remove a couple of wolves north of the park, and I got hundreds and hundreds of e-mails. Overnight, I had succumbed to the evil ranching forces and become a wolf murderer. The controversy over wolves has nothing to do with wolf biology, said Hank Fischer, the northern Rockies representative for Defenders of Wildlife and one of the longest-heard voices for wolf reintroduction.