I find this mentality often goes hand in hand with the notion that all wilderness should be managed as nothing but a giant game farm, to produce as much walking meat as possible for human consumption, with any competition from other predatorial species eradicated. And that wilderness has no other, greater function or importance.
I also find this mentality commonly astride ORVs, wondering why they’re not seeing game and needing something other than themselves to blame.
I don’t think wolves are any more “sacred” than any other species, but nor are they any less. In fact, I think it’s the notion that some species are more so than others that is a big part of the problem.
