Colorado Ranch Hand Reportedly Shoots Wolf While Protecting Calves

By: Miles Blumhardt | The Coloradoan

A ranch owner says her ranch hand shot and killed the King Mountain wolf pack mother, the Coloradoan has confirmed.

The death will test the state’s laws protecting the endangered predator, which only allows for the legal killing of wolves under certain situations.

Ranch owner Susan Nottingham first confirmed the killing of the wolf to the Coloradoan in an interview June 1. The wolf was killed March 10 on the Nottingham Ranch, which spans 20,000 acres in northern Eagle and southern Routt counties.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife, in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is leading an investigation into the wolf death and has not yet released details of the case.

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