527F dies for what?

This story in Science makes my pretty sad and a little angry. Some hunters killed nearly an entire pack of wolves that had been studied for years in Yellowstone. It was a legal hunt or "harvest" as they call it and the first of its kind in a long time. I've always been skeptical about the motivations behind wolf hunting and this seems to confirm my suspicions. Killing this pack doesn't seem to be about protecting livestock or reducing an overpopulation of wolves. I'm sure there is more than one side to the story, but in the end for me it's some hunters destroying a wolf pack for a rush and a good story. All at the expense of many years and many dollars worth of research. It must take a lot of skill and guts to go to the edge of a park and kill wolves that have spent their entire lives around people with cameras instead of guns. Hopefully the silver lining will be people rethinking if and how we hunt wolves.