This is one of the most cogent, fact based opinion pieces the Alaska Dispatch has ever published.  Well done Mr. Knowles.

The extermination of wildlife that spends most of its time in Denali National Park is irrational, and has given Alaska a black eye at the global level.  

A live wolf, bear, lynx, or wolverine is worth exponentially more to our tourism industry- in this instance- than as a pelt.