From Colorado Politics: The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and the Gunnison County Stockgrowers Association are suing to prevent the introduction of gray wolves in the state. The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, named the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife as defendants, according […]
From The Wildlife News: A recent NPR radio story titled: “Is Colorado Too Crowded To Support Wolves” suggested that with 6 million residents, there wasn’t enough habitat to sustain wolves. I’ve been involved with wolf restoration since the 1980s, first in Montana and Idaho, then later in Oregon. Click here for the full story.
From Sky-Hi News: Ten wolves are set to arrive in Colorado this month. On Nov. 9, wildlife officials prepared local residents for wolf reintroduction during an open house at the Colorado State University Extension Hall in Kremmling. The meeting was led by Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff: Jeromy Huntington, area wildlife manager; Ellen Brandell, wildlife […]
From Fox News: Wildlife officials plan to release gray wolves in Colorado in coming weeks, at the behest of urban voters and to the dismay of rural residents who don’t want the predators but have waning influence in the Democratic-led state. The most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades marks a sharp […]
From The Journal: The restoration of wolves to Colorado is an historic conservation effort to return and preserve the integrity of wild ecosystems in the Southern Rocky Mountains. This is why I feel compelled to respond to an article recently appearing in The Durango Herald, originating from The Colorado Sun, “How are wildlife officials preparing Coloradans […]
From Duluth News Tribune: CARLTON — Deer hunters across Minnesota must rally together and pressure politicians in St. Paul and Washington to remove wolves from federal endangered species protections and allow an open season to cull their numbers. That was the message to a packed meeting Wednesday night organized by the new northern Minnesota-based group Hunters […]
From the Bemidji Pioneer: CARLTON — Deer hunters across Minnesota must rally together and pressure politicians in St. Paul and Washington to remove wolves from federal endangered species protections and allow an open season to cull their numbers. That was the message to a packed meeting Wednesday night organized by the new northern Minnesota-based group Hunters […]
From Source NM: Lobos are culturally and environmentally significant to New Mexico and a Mexican gray wolf that wildlife experts say is resilient in face of peril and breaks assumptions, something many New Mexicans can relate too, is back after a long trip. Asha the Mexican gray wolf #2754 has now returned to the northern […]
From Idaho Capital Sun: Wildlife conservation groups on Nov. 29 filed a legal petition asking the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit aerial gunning of wildlife in national forests in Idaho. The petition was filed by International Wildlife Coexistence Network, the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project. Click here for the full story.
From Smithsonian Magazine: Colorado is set to start reintroducing gray wolves within the coming weeks. Voters passed a ballot initiative in 2020 that requires the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) to begin reintroduction efforts by the end of this year. Over the course of this month, officials will capture, transport and release up to […]
