Fantastic Picture. I've only seen one in the wild and it was very impressive. I watched it walk along the side of a mountain for about five minutes. Smooth is the only way to describe how it looked covering the rough ground. It was just walking, but it covered a lot of ground very quickly. It came out of nowhere and then disappeared into nothing. There wasn't very many trees, and it was an open mountainside.
As for things the Fish and Game Department does, I never heard of secretely bringing a species back. Every time they do this, it's a huge story and something that they brag about. Look at the wolves in Yellowstone or elk in so many different states.
What they do that isn't published or talked about is remove problem animals. In CA, they kill problem mountain lions all the time. A buddy is a tracker and is hired by the state to find and kill lions. He also removes other problem animals, but the lions are where he makes the big bucks. I also know a game warden there that was part of deer removal program from a park surrounded by cities. Publicly they brought in a helicopter from New Zealand to net and sterilize the deer. That was all show. At night, they killed dozens of deer without anybody knowing about it. Not saying they did anything wrong or illegal, just that it's not common knowledge what they do compared to what they say they are trying to do.
Eddie