We here all the rhetoric here in our state where we have a pretty decent wolf population. Every deer hunter who doesn't get a deer blames wolves rather than being lazy, fat, and just a poor hunter. In a bad winter it is common to loose half a million deer just to winter kill, the wolf take is pretty small comparatively. Across alot of white-tail range the population is declining from many factors besides predation, i.e., extending anterlerless seasons and a down turn in the logging industry have had a big effect in my state at reducing the deer population. In alot of the areas reverting to old growth the moose population has grown despite increases in the wolf population. In contrast to out west the big issue is wolves in high livestock areas cause depredation. Wolves in the Eastern U.S. mostly inhabit heavily forested areas with few livestock herds, happens a little bit here but not much.
