Actually, I watched the earlier version where the wolfman had raised a family of cubs and interfaced with them at their level. He learned a lot about behavior, and was able to help Polish farmers develop a predator detterent using howling wolf recordings that he recognized as territorial calls, thus keeping other wolves away from the livestock.

I'm not a big advocate of reintroduction, our world has changed in the past 100+ years since wolves roamed freely on this continent. We no longer have the sort of habitat to support wolf populations without creating strong interface issues. Coyotes are bad enough as it is, with how predatory they are on pets. Wolves can and will hunt humans as well as livestock, and the demography in the lower 48 is not conducive to pack lifestyle. That said, the more we can understand about wolf behavior, the more likely we are to be able to deal with the inevitable confrontations and clashes.

All the farmers and ranchers I know have no tolerance for coyotes, consider them a nuisance, and will shoot them on sight if they can, or pay someone else to if the wife's cat should go missing. I can't imagine they will be any more amenable to what they'd consider a bigger, deadlier coyote.