Jan 19, 2025 · DENVER — On Saturday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) completed capture and release work for the second gray wolf reintroduction season in support of the Colorado Gray Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. Fifteen wolves were translocated from the central interior of British Columbia to Colorado.

Jan 22, 2025 · On Jan. 19, CPW completed capture and release work for the second gray wolf reintroduction season in support of the Colorado Gray Wolf Restoration and Management Plan. The activity information related to the reintroduced wolves from British Columbia as well as the wolves from the original Copper Creek pack is included in this month’s map.

A one-year agreement announced in October 2023 between Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife secured Oregon as the source for the first 10 wolves for the Colorado wolf reintroduction effort.

Jan 19, 2025 · Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) captured 15 gray wolves in Canada and has released them in Eagle and Pitkin counties as the state continues to move forward with the voter-mandated reintroduction effort, bringing the total number of known wolves in the state to 29.. These 15 new wolves — seven males and eight females — will join the seven surviving from the first reintroduction in 2023 ...

Jan 20, 2025 · A relocated gray wolf stands outside of its crate for a brief moment at an undisclosed release site on Jan. 14, 2025. (Courtesy of CPW) ... with areas where livestock are present,” which should help minimize the chance of chronic livestock predation in Colorado. The state’s formal reintroduction plan, approved in 2023, calls for winter ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Colorado Parks and Wildlife will continue with its plan to release 10 to 15 more wolves in Colorado this month after the CPW commission voted Wednesday night to deny a petition asking for a pause in the wolf reintroduction program.

Jan 8, 2025 · Colorado group takes first step in ballot attempt to repeal wolf reintroduction program Another one of Colorado's released wolves that died was illegally shot, necropsy shows Colorado ranchers ...

Jan 26, 2024 · Three years after the passing of Proposition 114, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is now tasked with managing the wolf reintroduction. Over the next 3-5 years, it will release 10-15 wolves, annually, on Colorado’s Western Slope near Vail, Aspen, or Glenwood Springs.

Nov 7, 2023 · Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) intends to reintroduce the gray wolf in a portion of the species’ historical range in Colorado no later than December 31, 2023. CPW requested the designation of an experimental population under section 10(j) of the ESA to provide the state with increased flexibility to manage wolves once reintroduced in Colorado.

Jan 21, 2025 · Courtesy Colorado Parks and Wildlife State wildlife officials open a cage and release a gray wolf on Dec. 18, 2023 as part of a voter-approved measure that requires the predator’s reintroduction.