well what would a victory entail?
difficult to say...
but I think this is a tremendous article from Scientific American HERE
it describes the impact of reintroducing wolves into Yellowstone and how much that has benefitted the environment as a whole
IMHO it is a victory, or at least pointing in the direction of one...
Wolves In Yellowstone
A victory in that area at least. The Yellowstone wolves have prospered and the local community has accepted that wolves are once again part of the area's environment.
But wolves in general have not had nearly as much success in other areas. In Indiana, for example, there have been attempts to release wolf packs into the wild, but they never do well, mainly because we don't have a huge park to acclimatize them in, while the farmers see them as a threat and go out and shoot them. There are so many deer in many of the parks there are in Indiana without natural predators (except coyotes, which only prey on fawns occasionally) that they are destroying populations of plants, including endangered ones...
But wolves in general have not had nearly as much success in other areas. In Indiana, for example, there have been attempts to release wolf packs into the wild, but they never do well, mainly because we don't have a huge park to acclimatize them in, while the farmers see them as a threat and go out and shoot them. There are so many deer in many of the parks there are in Indiana without natural predators (except coyotes, which only prey on fawns occasionally) that they are destroying populations of plants, including endangered ones...