First Greg, thanks for the response and info!

However, per your: "Wolves may not have been native to PA. Even if that were not so, I'd highly doubt that the PA Game Commision would reintroduce them to control deer population (as important as that is, some folks'll tell you that the game commission prefers an overabundance of deer -- that is the commission is more concerned with providing targets than sustainability, but I digress). The ranchers and famers surrounding Yellowstone complained when the NPS reintroduced deer (sic. Did you mean wolves?). The farmers of PA are more powerful -- better connected and more numerous."

I believe you may have misunderstood my earlier post, and that I really said something very different than what you appear to have responded to. I heartily agree that the reintroduction of wolves would be highly unlikely for a number of reasons, such as those you cited. Wolves, while superb predators on deer (their primary prey) are pack hunters and very dangerous to even large livestock. Coyotes on the other hand are solitary hunters, typically of much smaller prey, e.g. voles, etc. They will take lambs, which is why sheep ranchers in the S.W. are always after them. I suspect that as they become numerous here in PA, regardless of how they arrived, and regardless of their past history in the state, that they will become a factor in the deer population via predation on fawns, which are highly suitable prey for them.

DTW