was my interpretation that the states were not thrilled about t having wololves back inn idaho, wyoyoming, and montana. it's kikind of like whyhy did yu pick our s state? why do we have to live with them? our state, to be in while put t them in central park in new york? it is unfair. people tell me that we don't really care for wolves. >> the delisting of wolves from the endangered species list is agreed-upon based on the estherville science at the time. and that called for a minimum of 300 wolves in the rocky mountains states for thrhree consecutive years or 10 breeding years for each state. and we reach that in 2002. 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 hun