By Piper Russell | Out There Colorado
In just six months, Colorado’s new ‘Born To Be Wild’ license plates have raised $312,800 to help protect livestock and wolves.
According to a press release from the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, the revenue from the license plates goes directly to Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to exclusively fund non-lethal tools and strategies to reduce conflict between wolves and livestock.
The non-lethal conflict mitigation tools and techniques include the use of fladry fences, repellent lights, non-lethal munitions, and other visual and auditory deterrents that keep wolves away from livestock. Funding from the license plates also goes to range riders to monitor livestock and deter wolf-livestock conflicts and for trained livestock guardian dogs. Funding also supports research and outreach efforts to improve these tools. According to the press release, these tools have a history of success in other areas with wolves.