I totally agree, it seems to me that we've gotten along just fine without wolves for the past hundred years or so, and the wolves they are "reintroducing" here in the Rockies never were native. The new Canadian Grey Wolf is a much larger and more aggressive species than the native Rocky Mountain Timber Wolf and the Canadian wolves have wiped out the last of the native timber wolves.
I recently visited a wolf sanctuary here in Colorado. They take in wolf and wolf/dogs from people who thought it would be cool to have a pet wolf and learned it wasn't really so much fun after all. It's a good enough cause I guess. We were met by the guy in charge who spoke briefly before turning us over to one of the hippy chick volunteers. Speaking to my friend's 8 year old daughter he said "you've probably heard that wolves are dangerous and that they kill people, well that is not true, wolves have never killed people." I didn't feel it was my place to call the guy on his BS but it sure didn't make a favorable impression that the very first words out of his mouth were a bald faced lie.