I also happen to know a little about this. And I wonder if you realize the complete irony of your statement about how difficult it is to watch a herd starve to death (by the way, wolves travel in packs not herds), and how much better it is to cull a herd. That is exactly the purpose of wolves. They help keep the population of herds in check so there aren't the population spikes and crashes that are harmful to both the environment and the animals themselves.

I hope you will make your kids watch a video of elk starving do death or dying of rampant disease because of overpopulation. Not to mention the devastation that deer and elk cause to forests because of their browsing.

Small animals and birds are the common prey of wolves, but a pack sometimes attacks reindeer, caribou, sheep, and other large mammals, usually selecting weak, old, or very young animals for easier capture. When no live prey can be found, wolves feed on carrion (decaying flesh of dead animals). They also eat berries.
Encarta Encyclopedia

Sarah Palin has no soul.

Wolves take only the sick and weak of any herd. The lack of education about wolves by some people just amazes me. They are social animals that feel pain and love and grieve for their lost pack mates. Wyoming has only 1400 wolves to almost 4,000,000 head of cattle and sheep. Elk in Yellowstone were not nearly decimated by the wolves. These animals are a vital part of the ecosystem and keep herds in check. The story that elk are the only diet of wolves is just that, a story. Their main diet consists of rodents, rabbits, and other small game. Sarah Palin's policy on aerial gunning is a cruel and barbaric practice that she continued to support even after the Alaskan people voted against it twice. Going against the will of the people is not good government.
It sickens me to no end to read and hear people talk of wolves as if they are the ones at fault. Man chose to move into their territory with their families, pets, and livestock and that has broken up the habitat for many animals. We have no right to make them the outlaws. Those wolves are following the niche laid out for them by Nature. For anyone to move into an area where they know there are wolves, or bears, or any wildlife, and then declare war on that wild life is just plain ludicrous. Before the wolves were reintroduced, elk, deer, and pronghorn were dying of starvation and disease because there wasn't enough food to support them all. Now that the balance is back, hunters, ranchers, and plain wolf haters wnat the wolves all killed off.
"The moral progress of a country is evidenced by the way it treats its animals"- Mahatma Ghandi

This country's moral progress is nil. Sarah Palin is no role model to me. She is a vicious, animal hating, self serving, sub human that will be punished by The Great Spirit. Anyone supporting this type of cruelty to any animal is despicable.

You know culling out some of the Wolves could be done by just catching them and placing them somewhere else not shooting them in the back and leaving them to just die a slow death. The ad shows the wolves trying to reach their backs because it is in pain and they just let it die a slow and painful death. If your gonna kill something, kill it, don't let it suffer. But like I said before, animals don't need to be killed to cull them out or to get rid of some of them they can be caught and placed. As for the wolves that kill the sheep and cows it is a proven fact that wolves only kill what they need and farmers only lose perhaps 2 animals a year. That isn't anything when you compare it to losing our history forever.