Colorado’s plan to trap, relocate wolves “did not go well” for Montana wildlife officials
From the Colorado Sun:
olorado Parks and Wildlife is learning in the first year of reintroduction that there’s little winning with wolves.
The agency’s latest plan to trap and move a Grand County pack that has been killing livestock riled wildlife groups, who roundly blasted the relocation plan as “being driven by politics … not rooted in science-based management” and a potential “death sentence” for the Copper Creek pack’s three pups. (The pack was named in June after CPW saw that two adults captured in Oregon and released in Colorado last year had produced offspring, the first of the reintroduced wolves. It is unclear if CPW plans to trap and relocate the pups.)
Scientists who trapped problem wolves in Montana and relocated them to a different part of the state agree that the process rarely ends well for young wolves that rely on their parents and do not know how to hunt.
