An Easy Four Bucks

Legal wolf hunting has finally returned to the Lower 48, ostensibly as a way to control the species' population while also earning Idaho's state government a few bucks. The program obviously has some folks in a lather, as history shows that rapacious hunting was responsible for the gray wolf's longtime residency on the endangered species list. And that hunting was egged on by publicly funded bounties, which paid a tidy sum in exchange for each lupine scalp.

But, rather ironically, the gray wolf