Someone needs to let this site know wolves have lost over 25% of their recovery effort in a little over a year!
As people settled the West, giving way to farms and ranches, the tide turned against wolves. Feared because of their impressive fangs and penchant for snacking on livestock, more than 100,000 gray wolves were killed in Montana between 1883 and 1942
via Why are wolves making a comeback in the United States?: Animal Planet.