From what I can understand I think Geist should have stayed with the sheep, elf, and deer where he did some good work. All I got out of the entire spiel was that wolves can become habituated and trappers had a very hard time in the early 1900's. Habituation of any animal and it's consequences is well known and from what I experienced in the late fifties and heard from my grandfather who came west in 1907 to homestead trappers and bounty hunters could make more money than miners and loggers. I know we did trapping for fur and cougar bounty. I also question the rabies epidemic and the horror stories of massive poisoning of wolves. There were none, and no ravens or white tailed deer either. Someone fill me in on what I am missing.
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