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Following wildlife officials quota for the wolf hunt, several websites posted their response.

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition writes:

"While we are disappointed in the way delisting has been achieved, the goal of the ESA is to restore native wildlife from the brink of extinction. We have achieved this success with wolves in Greater Yellowstone. Now, our challenge is to ensure we do not go backward. Radical elements in all western legislatures would wage war on wolves - it's up to reasonable people to stay vigilant and ensure the states manage wolves responsibly."

This is from an editorial by Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen on the EJ website:

"Wolves in the lower-48 states were essentially wiped out a few decades ago and have made a slow comeback in the northern Rocky Mountains after reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s. There are now just over 1,600 gray wolves in this region, but the proposed delisting would allow the Rocky Mountain states to maintain at most 300 to 450 wolves-far short of the 2,000 to 3,000 number needed for a sustainable, fully recovered population."

From the "Big Game Forever" website founded by Don Peay and Ryan Benson:

"Ill-advised experimentation and anti-management philosophy continues to be pushed by extreme animal rights and anti-sportsmen special interest groups. This war on the west threatens big game herds, proactive state wildlife management, use of renewable wildlife resources and the western way of life."

On the Montana Cattleman's Association website,Hansen Livestock of Dillon writes:

"Unless something is done to Control the wolf population they will continue to increase at an alarming rate. It will be hard for the Montana rancher to stay in business because of the predation by the wolves."