Part of the reason prey populations are out of control is the abundance of food available to them. You’d probably be able to support more wolves than historical

Part of the reason prey populations are out of control is the abundance of food available to them. You’d probably be able to support more wolves than historically there ever were with such populations. Hard to say if this will lead to a significant dent or not all that being said, reintroductions don’t always play out as expected. Every time you go up a “level” of the food web e.g. from plant to plant eater to predator, in the best cases the absolute numbers are 1/10; eg 100 plants can support 10 rabbits and 1 predator. If there are now 100 rabbits theres probably 10x as much food as before. Having that many rabbits means whatever is around that eats them e.g. coyotes or bobcats population as also went up 10x in that time. Therefore even if the wolf entirely displaced all bobcats or pumas or coyotes or whoever, the amount of prey being eaten might not change really. Who eats them might change, but maybe not their absolute numbers.