Dutch Salmon

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Yeah, it's a new kind of person coming in. There's a lot of retirees, but there's also a lot of younger people who are bringing their money and their lifestyle from someplace else. Those kind of people tend to be wilderness lovers; they tend to be more environmental than the oldtimers who've been here all along.

Urban people tend to view wildlife differently than rural people. As you get urbanized, you yearn for the great outdoors and you have this- this ongoing need for wildlife and wilderness and so forth, and you want to see it preserved, and so naturally they're going to want to bring the wolf back as a kind of aesthetic symbol, and since they're not raising any livestock, it's- it's no skin off their nose as to what these things eat. It's kind of an armchair fantasy, but that doesn't mean it's- it's irrelevant or illegitimate. Urban people need some connection with the natural world and if knowing there's a few wolves out there makes them feel better, that's all to the good.