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In an agreement announced today between Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the British Columbia Ministry of Water, Lands and Resource Stewardship, the Canadian province will be a source for up to 15 wolves for the Colorado gray wolf reintroduction effort for this upcoming winter. These wolves will be captured and translocated between December 2024 and March 2025.
Do two wrongs make a right? No!
If you do something stupid once (like reintroducing wolves from Oregon) and then you repeat it, does that make it something smart? No. Again. It’s just something doubly stupid. “Stupid-squared” as it were.
And now Colorado’s dragging Canada into this charade. So does that make it “Stupid-‘eh”? In CPW’s defense, this wasn’t their idea. Colorado’s citizens exercised management by the ballot box and voted for this lunacy instead of allowing CPWs trained wildlife officers and biologists to do their jobs.
Overall, CPW plans to release 10-15 gray wolves on the West Slope per year, for a total of 3 – 5 years, this being the second year, as outlined in the Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan.
“We are grateful to the B.C. Ministry of Water, Lands and Resource Stewardship for working with our agency on this critical next step in reintroducing gray wolves in the state,” said CPW Director Jeff Davis. “Their willingness and ability to work with another jurisdiction to support our conservation priorities, as they have in past translocation efforts, demonstrates their long-shared commitment to seeing this species succeed.” CPW will begin capture operations this winter, with B.C. providing assistance in planning and carrying out the operation.
Wolf selection will follow the guidance of the Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. Animals with major injuries – things like having several broken canines, missing eyes, fractured or missing limbs, mange or lice infection – will not be chosen for reintroduction.
CPW will not translocate wolves that are from packs that are currently involved in situations of repeated livestock depredations … (again). At least CPW learned something from the wolves they got from Oregon.
So, what say you?
8 comments
I am an Arizonan but introducing wolves anywhere in America is nothing more than a liberal way to stop all hunting. There will be no animals left in the wild to hunt in the near future. Wolves will kill anything they see for food and fun. Most hunters will not enter the woods with these killing machines out there. All grizzly bears and wolves should be elimated.
EXACTLY! Read between the lines and you will see Govenor Polis and crew are trying to eliminate and deter hunting. If we dug DEEP fairly confident his campaigns and pockets will be lined with monies from the BIG agencies trying to eliminate our hunting rights.
Yep citizens of Colorado voted and passed by majority so let the state of Colorado ruin their own resources from this mistake. Instead of creating revenue from sales of tags, licenses, food, hotels, gas, ect let the wolves harvest the deer and elk…
WELCOME to Colofarnia!
Colorado slowly turning in to California
If we sportsmen were to organize and get this REPEALED we would save an awful lot of animal suffering. The old timers got rid of wolves for this very reason.I call on SCI RMEF and many others to organize us and get it done.
Selecting only the prime animals seems very discriminatory. Especially in leftist CO, perhaps another ballot initiative to allow wolves with bad habits, broken canines and lice would be appropriate.
Hunters pay the DNR to maintain game populations that allow for human harvest and consumption, and are legitimately upset that they are now paying for the introduction of wolves that will compete with humans for a limited resource; no hunting license funds should be used to support wolves competing with hunters.