GB, I guess you are right, I could hunt the wooded areas and maybe take a wolf someday, even with my bow. But the areas where I find wolves when I am out looking for them is above treeline, in the mountains. And in this area there is seldom any way to stalk, and get close. I do always try and get as close as I can, without being seen or smelled. Wolves in Alaska are hunted and trapped, so they are well educated on avoiding man. Some packs after being shot up after returning to an animal they have killed, or being shot on a gut pile left by a moose hunter, will no longer eat cold meat. They only eat fresh meat they have killed themselves, and never return. At the first hint of something wrong, they run. Forget about using a predator call, they usually run at the first squeal.
After missing the opportunity to take a shot, when trying to get closer, I gave it up. Then an old man who had lived here all his life taught me how to find them, and how to take them out. He chided me for thinking like a flat lander too, and think one wolf. His philosophy is the whole pack, so that is now my goal. A missed wolf is an educated wolf. He taught me to carry two guns, one for long range, and a semi-auto for close range. I carry a Weatherby Accumark in .338/378 for the long range work, and a Ruger mini-14 for the close work. I use a twenty round magazine in the Ruger.