The argument above would be most significantly weakened if which of the following were true?
A. Effective laws against the hunting of gray wolves have been enacted.
B. Ranchers, farmers, and hunters still have an ingrained bias against gray wolves.
C. By the 1930’s bounty hunters had exterminated most of the gray wolves in the United States.
D. Programs for increasing the gray wolf population are not aided by federal laws that require the licensing of hunters of certain predators.
E. Suggested programs for increasing the gray wolf population have been criticized by environmentalists and biologists.