If they need to keep wolves away from certain places they should do the same Greenland does with polar bears: Catch them, put them in prison with shoddy (but edible) food for a couple of weeks, then release them away from civilisation. Bear parents then even go ahead and teach their kids to not get too close to human settlements, wolves should be more than intelligent enough to do the same.
Wait what? That’s hilarious. They traumatize the bears so the bears go home and frighten their kids with peison stories? They implemented a “scared straight” program for bears? Amazing.
Killing off predators has a cascading effect that comes back to bite you in the ass. They killed off all the natural predators of deer in Indiana and now, not only are there deer everywhere (people in Bloomington have to fence in their gardens because of an urban deer problem), if enough of them aren’t culled by hunters every year, they eat up all the food and not only do a bunch of deer starve to death, but so do all the other animals that they share that food with.
But talk about re-introducing wolves and bears and cougars to Indiana and people think they’ll be murdered in their beds… as if there are constant maulings in the parts of the U.S. with those animals. You’re more likely to be killed by a deer running in front of your car in Bloomington in the middle of the day. Which sure as hell almost happened to me once.
Hunters are a big lobby here. They don’t want competition by predators. As long as there’s no natural balance, they can tell everyone their hobby is essential work for the preservation of nature. An actually sustainable solution is against their interests.
