Gray wolf brought to back from the brink of extinction only to head there again?

After years of being on the Endangered Species list the gray wolf is back and will likely be removed from the list shortly. Unfortunately, Idaho governor Butch Otter has said that as soon as they are removed from the list he will support public hunting of these animals. Currently there are ~650 gray wolves in Idaho. Otter says that he wants 550 of them to be killed, bringing the population to 100, the minimum required to stay off the list.
Perhaps the people of Idaho should start hunting otters instead.