Colorado Parks & Wildlife Officials Kill Wolf After Numerous Livestock Attacks in Pitkin County, CO Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials killed a gray wolf in Pitkin County on Thursday evening, May 29, after confirming a series of livestock attacks that met the state’s threshold for “chronic depredation.” The wolf, known as 2405, belonged to the Copper Creek Pack and was killed and removed on May 29 following four separate attacks between May 17 and […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 30, 2025 2 Comments
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 Glogau | August 15, 2023 1 Comment
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
First Wolf Sighting in Colorado Since 2015 Confirmed as Dispersing Male from Wyoming Pack The gray wolf sighted this week in northern Colorado originally came from Wyoming and is a dispersing male from the state’s Snake River pack, Wyoming Game and Fish officials have confirmed. The wolf was seen in Jackson County and also Grand County. The creature was wearing a radio collar and was last recorded Feb. 12 around South Pass in west-central […] SnowBrains | July 11, 2019 0 Comments
Colorado Voted Against Reintroducing Wolves but the Wolves Might Just Have the Final Say Three times over the last 25-years, Colorado legislature has voted against reintroducing wolves back into the state’s ecosystem. The problem is, somebody forgot to tell the wolves, and they might just be establishing themselves back in the Centennial State anyway. You might also like: Oregon Wolf “OR-54” Confirmed Near Truckee California Supporters of humans meddling with nature hope that a reintroduction […] Steven Agar | October 25, 2018 0 Comments
Increased Gray Wolf Activity in California Since a gray wolf named OR7 graced California’s northern territories in 2011, wolf activity has become a hot topic in the state. In the 1920’s the gray wolf had been eradicated from California and by the 1930’s was almost extinct across the entire US. OR7’s presence was the first real wolf activity in the state in almost 100 years and sparked a movement to […] Dylan Cautela | November 28, 2016 0 Comments
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