Since you're talking about 'facts' and 'what's up', here are a few facts for you...
I run cattle in wolf country here in CO, have been involved with the reintroduction process since 2021 (including being one of the first dozen non-lethal hazing permit holders), and have stood over more dead cows and calves than I care to think about. Your take on things is pretty far off base from reality, especially in the areas around where they have dens. There are plenty of elk, moose, and deer being killed by wolves, along with lots of cattle 'going missing' out on pasture or grazing permits that will never be found. I've seen carcasses picked clean, and I've seen animals killed and not a bite taken out of them for consumption. I've watched the behavior shift in the wild animals, and have seen the changes in my own cows after a wolf (or wolves) have come through.
The reality is that your infrequent visits from the city into country with wolves gives you zero perspective of what it really is like trying to live and work around them on a daily basis.
Regarding your post about an eventual management plan; there already is one. Not that it has been followed, but it is 270+ pages long and established by the working groups prior to and through the reintroduction process. They stopped abiding by the parts that don't present well to city people pretty quickly. I told our DWM they needed to shoot each wolf and pup in the Copper Creek Pack while they had them captured, or they would have to track down each one later and do it then. The capture & relocation of that pack was against the management plan. Letting depredating parents bring up pups was against the management plan. Lo and behold, they have been letting the air out of that pack all summer as the pups depredated on livestock exactly like the parents brought them up to.
Most wolf-livestock conflicts aren't making the news anymore, primarily because CPW is pushing to classify as many depredations as possible as indeterminate in an effort to keep public perception of the program in a positive light (and in the black on the budget).
