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This week, more wolves were released in Colorado as part of an initiative to reintroduce the species to the state. The gray wolf has been endangered in the United States for many years, and recent ...
(The Center Square) – Garfield County commissioners are urging Colorado wildlife managers to halt further releases of gray wolves in the state. The commissioners sent a letter to Colorado Parks ...
Wildlife officials in Colorado have released an additional five gray wolves in the state, bringing the total so far under a voter-approved reintroduction program to 10. Colorado Parks and Wildlife ...
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 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.
Less than nine months after Colorado released its first gray wolves into the wild as part of a controversial reintroduction program, two of the 10 released wolves, along with three pups born this ...
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 ...
Gray wolves are native to North America, [2] including Colorado and were once present across the state. Overhunting of common prey (especially elk) and an increase in livestock numbers forced them into conflict with ranchers. [3] [4] Wolves were hunted, trapped and poisoned into local extinction by the 1940s. [5]