Brown said the long-term objective of the wolf recovery program is to have 100 wolves in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area, which includes all of the Apache National Forest and Gila National Forest. If the elk population is good, it could be 150 wolves. This comment led to a question of how much fear the wolves have for people. She added that the wolves howl instead of barking like a dog, and said if people remain near a kill, the wolves will leave the area. Neither of those attacks was fatal.
Wolves are wild animals and they have big teeth.
It's stupid to say they'd never kill a child. Brown said, that under the experimental management rule for wolves, livestock includes horses, burros, sheep, cattle and mules. She said that, since Mexican gray wolves are an endangered species, if the experimental management rule were not appended to the endangered species act, even these animals could not legally be protected from wolves. A wolf walking through a herd of cattle, even chasing a cow, is not fair game. The projected timeline for the wolf recovery program, Brown said, is 15 years.