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New wolfpack released into high society near Aspen in Pitkin County
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New wolfpack released into high society near Aspen in Pitkin County

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Wolves arrived from British Columbia on Sunday, Jan. 12, and were released in Pitkin County; a county that actually voted to have them.  They have become residents of the affluent communities near Aspen and Snowmass. Since CPW can only release the wolves on state or private lands, as long as they have the landowners' permission, according to law, and since CPW has told audiences repeatedly in meetings this fall that Pitkin County does not have a large enough state-owned property to release, it is now clear that a private landowner has offered his privately owned large ranch to the wolf restoration effort.  Although CPW has not confirmed the wolves were released on private land about 6 miles south of Basalt, it became...
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New wolf pack arrival in Western Colorado is just in time for calving season
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New wolf pack arrival in Western Colorado is just in time for calving season

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice On Saturday, Jan. 11, Colorado Parks and Wildlife put out a press release that they were going to begin trapping and transporting operations to bring up to 15 Canadian Grey Wolves from British Columbia, Canada, to Western Colorado. One day later, wolves were on the ground in Garfield County.  A plane, operated by Lighthawk Conservation Flying, is the same plane that CPW leased in December 2023 to bring wolves from Oregon to the state. The aircraft left Prince St. George, British Columbia, early in the morning of Jan. 12, and landed at Eagle County Airport at about 4 p.m., where witnesses on the ground saw CPW vehicles equipped with a trailer and animal crates leave the airport and head west on Interstate 70. Eagle Ai...
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CPW Commission denies petition to pause wolf introduction on 10-1 vote
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CPW Commission denies petition to pause wolf introduction on 10-1 vote

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice In a highly-emotional hearing that lasted more than six hours, Colorado Parks and Wildlife commissioners took testimony from nearly 100 people concerning whether or not the Commission should vote to approve or deny a petition to pause the wolf introduction program, until all of the mitigation tools were in place and funded. The petition was submitted by groups in 63 of the 64 Colorado counties, and included organizations such as the Middle Park Stockgrowers Association, Colorado Cattlemen’s Association, Colorado Farm Bureau, Club 20 and Colorado Wool Growers Association, as well as several local livestock and stockgrowers' associations. Although Commission Chairman Dallas May, from Southeastern Colorado, warned the atte...
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Wolf reintroduction plan to continue in Colorado despite petition from ranchers asking for delay
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Wolf reintroduction plan to continue in Colorado despite petition from ranchers asking for delay

By Tori Mason | CBS Colorado The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted 10 - 1 to continue wolf reintroduction in the state. Last year, a petition was filed asking CPW to stop releasing wolves until several changes are made. The commission listened to hours of public comment from both sides of the issue Wednesday ahead of their vote. In September, a petition filed by ranchers and agriculture organizations asked CPW to delay further introduction of wolves until Colorado's wolf management program is "equipped to handle the consequences of these introductions." READ THE FULL STORY AT CBS COLORADO
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife to discuss citizen petition to stop wolf reintroduction
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife to discuss citizen petition to stop wolf reintroduction

By Carly Moore | Fox 31 News On Wednesday and Thursday, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission will hold meetings about potentially pausing or changing the wolf reintroduction program.  The program has been met with pushback, especially from livestock owners in the counties impacted.  CPW’s plan is to release 15 more wolves from Canada in January. The counties being considered are Garfield, Eagle and Pitkin. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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Reward upped to $100K after dead wolf found with gunshot wound in Colorado
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Reward upped to $100K after dead wolf found with gunshot wound in Colorado

By Spencer McKee | Out There Colorado The reward being offered by a "consortium of conservation groups" for information about a wolf poaching incident in Colorado has doubled to $100,000, as of January 7. A press release related to the reward stipulates that $85,000 of the reward will follow formal charges being levied on a suspect, with the additional $15,000 getting delivered upon conviction of the suspect. This is an increase of the $50,000 award that was initially announced. The poaching investigation involves a Grand County wolf that died, with a necropsy revealing that it had sustained a gunshot wound that was likely a major factor in its death. READ THE FULL STORY AT OUT THERE COLORADO
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Smart Wolf Policy group organizes to recall failed Colorado wolf law
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Smart Wolf Policy group organizes to recall failed Colorado wolf law

 By Lindy Browning | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado Advocates for Smart Wolf Policy (SWPCO) has submitted a draft statutory proposition for the 2026 election to the Colorado Legislative Council, which, if successful, would return wildlife management back to experts and biologists who are assigned to manage the 903 wildlife species in Colorado. It would turn back attempts to ask voters, who neither have the expertise or experience, to dictate wildlife policy. It is being viewed as good news for the millions of Coloradoans who voted against Prop. 114 in 2020. It is the first step necessary to repeal the 2020 “reintroduction and management of gray wolves law,” reads a press release. “Right now, we have to dance to the tune of the State Title Board. Once we are...
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Browning: Where we’ve been and how it’s going in the ‘Great Colorado Wolf Experiment’
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Browning: Where we’ve been and how it’s going in the ‘Great Colorado Wolf Experiment’

By Lindy Browning | Contributing Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice It’s been just more than a year since Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) began implementing the 2020 narrowly-approved Proposition 114 to reintroduce the gray wolf.  So far, there doesn’t seem to be anyone who is calling the effort a success. CPW employees are being ostracized in their communities, ranchers and livestock growers are taking significant losses, people on the Western Slope feel stomped on by Front Range voters and state government officials’ progressive agendas. Even the wolves themselves are suffering, all over a decision made by emotional voters who have no expertise in either wildlife management or predator/prey relationships, and who were not given all the information that they needed to mak...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers reward for information on Colorado wolf’s death
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service offers reward for information on Colorado wolf’s death

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics The US Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a reward for information regarding the killing of the male of the Copper Creek wolf pack. The male, known as 2309-OR, was captured in Grand County on Aug. 30 and died on Sept. 3. He was found to be in poor condition. USFWS said a necropsy, which has not yet been released because the investigation is ongoing, revealed that a gunshot wound "initiated the poor condition of the wolf and ultimately led to the cause of death." Wolf 2309-OR was one of 10 wolves from Oregon, which came from packs with a history of killing livestock in that state, that were relocated to Colorado a year ago. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Wolf killed in Grand County was shot; federal officials seeking information
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Wolf killed in Grand County was shot; federal officials seeking information

By Jacob Factor | Fox 31 News Federal officials are seeking information in the illegal deadly shooting of one of the reintroduced gray wolves that died in Grand County in 2024. The wolf, one of three that died in 2024, was the adult male wolf of the Copper Creek pack Colorado Parks and Wildlife captured in 2024 that repeatedly attacked livestock, prompting the whole pack’s capture. The male wolf died less than a week after his capture, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said at the time. Parks and Wildlife staff found the wolf already in poor condition, with several injuries to his right hind leg and a body weight nearly 30 percent lower than when he was released. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
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