By Marianne Goodland | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS
After losing more than a dozen livestock and four cattle dogs to wolf attacks, Jackson County rancher Don Gittleson is getting help from lawmakers, who asked wildlife officials to immediately reconsider their decision denying a request to remove the depredating animals from the area.
Gittleson said repeated pleas to Colorado Parks and Wildlife to deal with these wolves have been ignored, other telling him to employ “non-lethal” methods to scare the wolves off. These methods have not worked, Gittleson said.
Now, state lawmakers are stepping into the fray.
State Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, and House Speaker Julie McCluskie, D-Dillon, penned a letter to CPW Director Jeff Davis on Monday, chastising the agency for failing to help the rancher who has so far lost 16 livestock and four working dogs to wolves that initially came from Wyoming and have since produced cubs.