Colorado Parks & Wildlife Confirms Death of 1 of 10 Reintroduced Gray Wolves This week, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) released a press release announcing that one of the 10 reintroduced wolves in Grand County, Colorado, has died. The 10 wolves reintroduced in Grand County were part of Proposition 114 (State Statute 33-2-105.8) which instructed the CPW Commission to reintroduce gray wolves to Colorado by December 31, 2023. Related: Video Confirms Colorados Reintroduced […] Julia Schneemann | September 13, 2024 0 Comments
Update on Colorado Wolves as CPW Announces Plans to Capture & Release Additional 15 Wolves Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has released a “Collared Gray Wolf Activity Map” which will help inform the public, recreationists, and livestock producers on where wolves have been in the past month. This map will be updated with new information on a monthly basis, produced on the fourth Wednesday of every month, and will reflect data for the prior month, […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | January 25, 2024 0 Comments
First 5 Wolves Released on Colorado’s Western Slope On Monday, December 18, 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (‘CPW’) released five gray wolves onto public land in Grand County. The release was part of Proposition 114 (State Statute 33-2-105.8) which instructs the CPW Commission to reintroduce gray wolves to Colorado by December 31, 2023. The State Statute came into effect following a public vote in Colorado in 2020, which […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | December 19, 2023 0 Comments
New Pack of Gray Wolves Emerges in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California 100 years ago, gray wolves roamed most of North America. However, back in the 1920s, despite being native to the area gray wolves were hunted and trapped to extinction. Now the wolves have slowly been making a comeback to several western states. In California specifically, it has only been in the past decade or so that a few gray wolves […] Industry News Brent Thomas | August 15, 2023 0 Comments
Wolf Reintroduction in Colorado: Thoughts and Tips The project to reintroduce the grey wolf to Colorado is taking shape. Two years ago a public vote was held in favor of wolf reintroduction and following preparations by the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), plans are becoming more concrete, with the proposed map for a release of several packs including popular ski areas like Aspen or Crested Butte. The […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | November 9, 2022 6 Comments
Wolf Seen Near Yosemite, CA for the First Time in Nearly 100 Years A young wolf, traveling south from Oregon, has been spotted in California’s Mono County, just to the east of Yosemite, KQED reported last week. Scientists monitored the wolf, nicknamed OR-93, via a tracking collar and watched as he journeyed south into California in what they believe was a search for new territory or a potential mate. This is the furthest […] Anson Brown | March 11, 2021 2 Comments
US Wildlife Officials Aiming to Remove Wolf Protections in 2020 The Trump administration plans to eliminate endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the country by the end of 2020, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday. “We’re working hard to have this done by the end of the year and I’d say it’s very imminent,” Aurelia Skipwith told The Associated Press in a […] SnowBrains | September 1, 2020 1 Comment
Wolves Beat Voters to the Punch, Reintroduce Themselves in Colorado Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Wednesday that they believe a pack of gray wolves are now living in Colorado. The announcement comes just days after the reintroduction of wolves officially made it onto the 2020 ballot. CPW reports that a pack of six wolves were seen traveling together last October and an elk carcass was devoured near Moffat County’s Irish […] Brains Robert Hansen | January 9, 2020 1 Comment
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