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CPW tracks four suspected wolf dens, ranchers brace for more uncertainty

Post Independent, Approved, State / May 8, 2025 / Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado Ranchers, Livestock protection, Wolf reintroduction, Wolves

For wolves, the beginning of May signals the end of denning season.

While Colorado Parks and Wildlife is tracking up to four pairs of wolves that could be denning, none have been confirmed, according to Eric Odell, the agency’s wolf conservation program manager.

“We are monitoring one to three to four pairs of animals that could be denning,” Odell said at the May 7 meeting for the agency’s commission.

The agency is “sussing out” these potential dens using data from the GPS collars that the majority of Colorado’s wolves are wearing.

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Colorado’s wolf plan ignores the one thing wolves don’t: borders

The Fence Post, Approved, National, State / April 21, 2025 / Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan, Endangered Species Act, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wolves, Wyoming

Over the last month, two of Colorado’s latest gray wolf transplants were killed after crossing the border into Wyoming.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife expects these types of movements into other states from the reintroduced wolf population. The species is known for traveling long distances in search of food or mates.

However, once the wolves leave Colorado, they lose certain protections afforded to them by both state and federal laws. But just how those protections change, and what might happen to them, depends entirely on which way they travel.

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