"Increasingly OK with" does not mean absence of wolf shooting truck nut hanging bumper sticker politics.
> Perhaps the study was ...
Three-quarters of surveyed residents now self-describe as tolerant, up from half in 2017.
... researchers sent a survey to 10,000 Montana residents who were separated into four categories:
* the general population,
* landowners with more than 160 acres of land,
* wolf hunting license holders, and
* deer and elk license holders.
No. It was not.
The eight page study summary has the responses over three years broken down by the four groups in Figure 1, Page 2: https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/conservation/...
The only group that didn't change their stance of the years were wolf hunting licence holders; land owners and deer|elk hunters became increasingly in favour of wolves, the general population concurred.