The Idaho Department of Fish and Game released Friday its 2013 Idaho Wolf Monitoring Progress Report. Its biologists documented 107 wolf packs in Idaho at the end of 2013 – fewer than the 117 documented at the end of 2012, but still the second-highest since reintroduction. Seven additional packs were added to the 2012 total based on evidence collected during 2013, bringing that total to 124 packs. An estimated 659 wolves were associated with documented packs of wolves in Idaho at the end of 2013. Another 120 have been killed since as breeding season starts, so the documented total is down more than 30 percent from its peak of 846 in 2008/Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman. More here.

Question: Is 659 wolves a good ceiling for Idaho?