We take the backstraps and season with a good steak seasoning, then we smoke until medium rare. After getting to temp we pull them off and sear it off in a hot iron skillet. Straight money.
I second this. I killed my bear doing exactly this. I went with just my bear tag and waited for somebody else in my group to kill something. My brother killed a cow elk and I was fortunate enough to see a bear coming into the gutpile.
Plain and simple reintroducing an apex predator and not implementing any management practices off the rip is a terrible idea. Elk numbers are already down and an unmanaged wolf population is only going to put the nail in the coffin.