minimumolves is a number of walllls to have a viable wolf populalation. something higher was -- off to have a viable wolf population. something higher was reasonable. many peoeople felt that 2000 wolves in the northern rockies would eventually lead to dispersal into all of the rocky mountain west that have the habitat and the food babase to feeded them. >> the delistingng i think was less than thrilling toto a lot f folklks when it meaeant that we would eventually start hunting and trapping them. [gunshot] >>>> the delisting was kind of unorthoxox consideredd -- compared to othther specicies we agencies get to the point where they decide we have enough. here, congress decided that they would intervene through a budget writiter and d list of f wolves. it leftt a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. removal of wolves from the federal and injured -- federal endangered species list was done very pearly. -- verery oily. .- very poorly they stuck with the original recovery numbers, which is pretty much nothing. >> there was no doubt a lot t of controroversy ov