Thank you Charles for providing some rational thoughts to the controversy of Alaska's predator control programs.  The 1997 independent evaluation of our predator control program by a panel of distinguished scientists of the National Academy of Science found numerous deficiencies. Ten years later the panel chairman again reviewed the status of Alaska's predator control programs and he found no evidence of improvement, rather, he concluded: " Indeed, recent predator control efforts have not been designed to test whether predators are actually controlling prey populations.  Rather, control efforts have been initiated under the assumption (or conviction) that predators are the cause and the solution to the “problem” is intensive predator control.”  The old notion that less predators = more moose is alive and well at ADF&G and the BOG even though Aldo Leopold, the "father of wildlife management," published has classic essay, Thinking Like A Mountain, nearly 70 years ago.