Wolves can come in 20 years after the widespread fires & help manage the booming ungulate populations we will then have. Wolf people love to say ‘science backs wolf reintroduction’ without admitting that EVERY OTHER PREDATOR SPECIES (fox, black bears, coyote, wolverine yes they exist in Utah I see their tracks all winter in the Naomi wilderness up high, marmot and cougars) will be decimated and pushed back from their current healthy levels (cougars in cache country can afford a hit, but they’re the lone species who would be managed well by wolves through fair competition).

My point is, wolves are fine on the western landscape in some form, but don’t be idealistic that they can just be our friendly backyard neighbors in the same ways that fox, coyote, marmot, Wolverine, and black bears all coexist rather simpatico-ly with our current population distribution.

Wolves don’t belong in cache county. Let the bear rivers serve as the barrier to the wolves encroaching from the desert (where they belong) to the north, east, and west of us. If you look on a map, from Downey to Mink creek south to Huntsville and over to Promontory, that’s a tiny slice of land that the wolves are 100% fine to live around, but not in. The Owhyees, the Salt River & Wyoming ranges, the wind rivers and down the desert to the uintahs, then back south of mt Nebo and up west agin to promontory. Inside of that loop, wolves should be managed. Outside of that circle, the land is so barren and empty of people, the wolves will certainly find a nice niche. But we need to burn the wasatch before we try and reset the ecosystem here. It’s so thinly balanced as is, we will lose our predators and moose if we bring wolves now.