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The North Park basin in Colorado's north-central mountains saw the first payment made through the Game Damage Program which can also include prevention materials. [127] Various methods have been developed to haze wolves to keep them away, and train them to avoid livestock. [128]
The presence of apex predators improves habitat quality and species viability down the food chain. This reintroduction could be a model for repairing ecosystems.
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission was tasked with preparing a plan. [10] In late December 2023, the first wolves were released onto public land in Summit and Grand counties. [11] The 10 wolves were translocated from Oregon. The group consisted of two adult male, two juvenile males, and six juvenile females. [12]
Colorado Proposition 114 (also the Reintroduction and Management of Gray Wolves Proposition, and formerly Initiative #107) was a ballot measure that was approved in Colorado in the November 2020 elections. It was a proposal to reintroduce the gray wolf back into the state. The proposition was passed with a narrow margin, making Colorado the ...
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 officials anticipate releasing 30 to 50 wolves within the next five years in hopes the program starts to fill in one of the last remaining major gaps in the western U.S. for the species ...
The reintroduction, starting with the release of up to 10 wolves, emerged as a political wedge issue when GOP-dominated Wyoming, Idaho and Montana refused to share their wolves for the effort.
[63] in March 2024, the Fish and Wildlife Services discovered that the wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the American Southwest had increased to 257 wolves, with 144 wolves (36 packs) in New Mexico and 113 wolves (20 packs) in Arizona. The annual pup survival rate was 62%. 113 wolves (44% of the population) have collars for monitoring ...