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Wolves have been dispersing from the northern Rocky Mountains since they were introduced there in the 1990s. [13] A Wolf Working Group was formed in 2004 to create a management plan that provides policy for Colorado wildlife managers as they handle potential conflicts between the wolves, humans, and livestock. [14]
The gray wolf has been endangered in the United States for many years, and recent poaching and habitat loss have further diminished their numbers. Colorado received 15 wolves from Canada, all of ...
The Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund led the campaign in support of Proposition 114. [15] [16] It was argued that wolves would "restore Colorado's natural balance", and that reintroduction was needed to counter the effects of the gray wolf's protections under the Endangered Species Act being removed in October 2020.
The southern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus youngi) is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf which was once distributed over southeastern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Nevada, Utah, western and central Colorado, northwestern Arizona (but north of the Grand Canyon), and northwestern New Mexico.
Large male gray wolf walking on a hill in the forest. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Less than nine months after Colorado released its first gray wolves into the wild as part of a controversial ...
Colorado residents largely in cities voted to reintroduce the animals in 2020, clashing with those in rural areas who feared attacks on their livestock. The first 10 wolves were released a year ago, and since then there have been over two dozen claims of depredations — when wolves kill livestock or working dogs.
The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project had spearheaded Colorado's wolf reintroduction. "The agency needs to take this opportunity to digest the lessons learned, but they conducted a very difficult ...
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today. [17]