The Legislature did not approve Al Barrette. It was payback for the BOG not creating a wolf buffer zone around Denali Park. Not because of his "extreme views".  Ask Van Ballenberghe how the Mulchatna caribou herd did under his watch. I do not agree with some of the methods used. However the biggest problems with intensive management is the fact that F&G biologist fail to recognize and then admit predation problems early enough. By the time the BOG enacts a program it has been too late to be effective in the time frame VVB expects.  After the Mulchatna herd finished crashing from mismanagement; the wolves and bears wiped out the moose populations in short order. It was changes to hunting seasons and bag limits of predators by the BOG that has somewhat salvaged the area over a 15 year period. The area is still nowhere near what it was before. But with out the BOG's help, it would currently be a waste land, a biological desert in a deep predator pit. Declines happen fast, recovery slow.