Ya know what it is. It is that so many people still do not accept man's responsiblity as it relates to this biosphere that we inhabit. We study nature diligently. Many scientists both lay and professional have contributed to the dramatic redress of so many environmental wrongs that have been done and are still being done today. A friend mentioned something the other day. That many wolves were shot by shepherds and animal tenders in the high meadows. Many were shot by women and children when they were near the town or animals. Before us, the Indians kept the wolves in check and actually used to live in great harmony with the wolf. The wolf is highly intelligent, very similiar to us in many respects. Similar social structures, sense of family, loyalty, even self sacrifice, evidenced by the lone male wolf who leaves the pack to increase the strength of the pack and their resources. After the Nez Pearce and the other local tribes were eradicated from the area the wolf popoulation grew without their management to dangerous levels. The Indians kept the wolves in check, then the U.S. Cavalary and the settlers kept them in check. Then they were gone. Our society and way of life have changed greatly since those times, the wolves haven't. The indians have many stories and there are documented reports of wolves hunting settlers and trappers in organzied small groups of three or four, even circling and camping a remote dwelling imprisoning a mother and two children for 3 days while her husband was away on business during the 1880s. The wolves moved in the morning he rode out with the horses and were still there when he returned. The husband was grateful for his wife nagging him the morning he left to get the water from the cistern before leaving saying, "If not for the full barrel of water, they surely would have perished of thirst in a most dreadful manner." citing the odeur of the pails that his wife and children had used and the sweltering August days.