The reintroduction of the Canadian wolf into the Northwest has been the center of a very heated debate among sportsmen, ranchers, conversationalists, the states affected by wolves, and the federal government. This debate began when the federal proposed to “reintroduce” wolves into the Yellowstone national park. Then in the mid 1990's, they made the decision to take wolves from different packs in Canada and plant them in the Yellowstone wilderness. The debate extended much more after wolves were formally introduced because the federal government had promised the states that were forced to accept wolves would be able to manage them once the wolves numbers had reached a sustainable number, that promise was forgotten when the federal government was sued by several conversationalists originations. In their opinions the wolf was a vital part of the ecosystem, and if man stayed out of their business then they would manage themselves. “In mid January, fourteen wolves from separate packs captured in Canada where released in Yellowstone and placed in one acre acclimation pens” (yellowstone/bearman.com) this was the first step into the federal government’s plan to introduced wolves back into the lower 48 states. It started in Yellowstone national park and then spread to most of the states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming once the wolves had taken root in these states hope spread through conversationalists groups, and fear was building in the sportsman, and ranching community. The original purpose of introducing wolves into Yellowstone was the fact that the park’s elk population had grown out of control, to solve this problem the federal government decided to “kill two birds with one stone” by introducing a major predator into the ecosystem, and saying that it was a reintroduction project when in fact the wolves introduced into the park and then introduced into the rest of the northwest are not the breed of wolf that was native to the lower 48 states. If the federal government had actually wanted to bring wolves back from the brink of extinction, they only had to help the small natural population of American grey wolves back to sustainable numbers through breeding programs (Montana.postmedia.com). Instead of helping a natural population return they introduced a bigger more aggressive breed of wolf, the Canadian Timber wolf. When the timber wolf’s population spread into the small population of grey wolves the Timber wolves being very territorial pushed them out of the area or killed them. This is something