[Never mind that wolves are social animals too…]
From Capital Press: http://www.capitalpress.com/Washington/20150224/wolf-cougar-and-hemp-bills-meet-deadline-to-stay-alive-in-olympia
Here is a look at where some agriculture-related bills stand:
• Wolves: House Bill 2107 requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to amend by June 30, 2017, the wolf recovery plan. The bill instructs game managers to review the
plan in light of the fact that wolves are concentrated in northeast Washington but have not spread throughout the state.
The bill got bipartisan support in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. But it may be amended by the full House to require that changes to the wolf plan be reviewed under the State Environmental Policy Act, a lengthy process.
Northeast Washington officials say “social acceptance” of wolves has about disappeared in their corner of the state. If SEPA is attached to HB 2107, any change to the wolf recovery plan likely will be pushed back much later than mid-2017.
• Cougars: SB 5940 would allow hounds be used to pursue or hunt cougars in Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille, Chelan and Okanogan counties for the next five years. Other counties could opt in. The bill received bipartisan support in the Senate Natural Resources and Parks Committee.
Exposing the Big Game 
Surprise! (not)
This is the section of the state the John Birch society had an incredible following…I am truly surprised there was any acceptance of wolves in this part of the state… The prejudice against the wolf will not die unless an education/coexistence program is put into place…it’s the same prejudice that underlies our racism in America…Fear of something or someone different than you ..especially if it is characterized as big, scary and mean…and a Lone renegade type or a gang (aka pack) really gets folks riled up …we need to finally learn to live with our wildlife in rural places …. Fish and Wildlife dept should be educating the public not eradicating the wild.
It’s an epidemic in America to kill what we fear …we never want to work thru these fears and actually understand that the wolves and their brethren are actually the underpinnings of our ecosystem we rely on everyday for sustenance…we are all intertwined in the dance of existence.
Ignorance kills.
The Livestock Industry will never rest until public lands are totally “domesticated feed lots,” devoid of the wild, “managed and controlled.” This is rampant here in the west, and certainly elsewhere around the world. Until people realize this is The Enemy, and that collaboration/compromise should not be in our vocabulary, the wildlife will suffer and die. The Defense Bill, just passed a few months ago, had some of the most terrible agriculture riders to further hunting/livestock/energy interests ever. Very little discussion took place among so-called “animal/environmental groups.” These riders will have far-reaching, destructive ramifications for wildlife & wild places, and it should have shaken us out of our shoes, but it didn’t. Why?
http://www.foranimals.org
Good question.