Wildlife advocates see reintroduction in Colorado as a vital step in restoring the wolf more quickly to habitat stretching from the Canada to the Mexico border. Cattle ranchers, elk hunters, farmers and others in rural areas argue wolf reintroduction is bad policy driven by urban majorities along Colorado’s Front Range - and a threat to livestock and to a $1 billion hunting industry. Opponents of the reintroduction initiative said the presence of wolves in Colorado showed reintroducing the animals was unnecessary because they could eventually repopulate the state naturally. The animals were believed to have come down from Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. Officials last year confirmed the presence of a small pack of wolves in northwestern Colorado after a number of sightings since 2019. Gray wolves were hunted, trapped and poisoned into extermination in Colorado in the 1940s.
“These pups will have plenty of potential mates when they grow up to start their own families,” Polis said in a statement.
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Penalties for violations include fines, jail time and a loss of hunting license privileges. But they remain protected at the state level, and hunting the animals in Colorado is illegal. Gray wolves lost their federal protected status as an endangered species earlier this year. The discovery comes after Colorado voters narrowly approved a ballot measure last year that requires the state to reintroduce the animal on public lands in the western part of the state by the end of 2023.
Most wolf litters have four to six pups, so there could be more. NOTE: this article was originally published to on June 9, 2021.ĮNVER (AP) - Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.Ī state biologist and district wildlife manager each spotted the litter of at least three wolf pups over the weekend with their parents, two adult wolves known to live in the state, Gov. “Quoting the article below, ” Wildlife advocates see wolf reintroduction in Colorado as a vital step in restoring the wolf more quickly to habitat stretching from the Canada to the Mexico border.”
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