Brother that article does not even begin to spell the problem, we have in fact lost over 50% of all our elk and they have been wiped almost out in the wilderness areas, example 1985in the panhandle we had a 5 week elk season first 3 weeks were either sex no draw just shoot a cow or a bull and the bull to cow ratio was 50 bulls per 100 cows and the hunting was awesome, the woods had alot of hunters and life was good now today in the exact same area 10 bulls per 100 cows and NO either sex hunting and the season is 2 weeks long...... there are almost no elk there! or moose, example : the Clearwater zone where I hunt now used to have a population of over 21,000 elk now that population is a 2300 so their 20 percent numbers are BS these damn wolves have in effect runied hunting here in north central Idaho they are like a plauge of locusts and every bleeding heart tree hugging earth muffin out there wants to save them all.....!