in yellow stone park, dan spring ser live from seattle now, so dan, now some people are thinking there are too many wolves right now. yeah? >> reporter: and it is a growing debate arthel. great wolves came off the an dangered species list over a year ago but remain the most controversial species by far in the entire mountain west and yes, the majority of the west, politicians in idaho and wyoming say there are too many wolves. in idaho, there are about 1000. the federal government which turns over management of the species last year is requiring idaho to maintain a population of at least 150 wolves so the fish and game commission has been reducing the numbers by encouraging hunting of wolves, but that's not all. the governor wants the federal government to keep paying the state for all the wolves. >> it's had a large economic impact on us. and those folks that -- that want them here, ought to be the ones paying for them.

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