Tag: wolf reintroduction
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EDITORIAL: Colorado wolves reap what activists have sown
Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced this week that it had killed three yearling wolves in three separate counties. Two were killed in Pitkin and Rio Blanco counties on Monday, with another in Grand County on Wednesday. As The Gazette reported before the third wolf was killed, the three were among 10 initially brought to Colorado…
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LETTERS: This fight will be won by nature; another side to the AFA story
This fight will be won by nature I keep hearing the same complaint from ranchers and Western Slope residents: wolf reintroduction was decided by Front Range voters who don’t have to live with the consequences. It’s a compelling story, but it’s also incomplete. Colorado’s public lands belong to every Coloradan, not just the people who…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado — where wolves come to die
The latest news on Colorado’s precarious and dwindling wolf pack was unsurprising. As reported Sunday in The Gazette, yet another of the wolves relocated to Colorado from Oregon not long ago has died. It happened amid an attempt by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to capture the animal, the state agency confirmed. Enthusiasts of returning the…
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet: ‘It’s right to suspend’ wolf program in Colorado
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who is running for governor, told a newspaper this month that he favors suspending Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program, though he sounded less certain in another interview a few days later. “I think it’s right to suspend it for now and to try to see whether there’s any way to get back…
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet: ‘It’s right to suspend’ wolf program in Colorado
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, who is running for governor, told a newspaper this month that he favors suspending Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program, though he sounded less certain in another interview a few days later. “I think it’s right to suspend it for now and to try to see whether there’s any way to get back…
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EDITORIAL: Let’s face it, wolf reintroduction is a failure
With the news last week Colorado Parks & Wildlife will not release any wolves this winter, it has become clear the state is at a crossroads with its reintroduction program. Which is as good a place as any to reverse course — and admit the program is a failure. Voters were ever-so-slightly in favor of…
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Colorado halts wolf releases for 2026 as federal pressure mounts
Colorado Parks and Wildlife, facing mounting criticism from the Trump administration over its management of the wolf reintroduction program, announced last week they will not bring in any new wolves to the state for the 2026 winter season. CPW was turned down in November by Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Washington residents…
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Colorado halts wolf releases for 2026 as federal pressure mounts
Colorado Parks and Wildlife, facing mounting criticism from the Trump administration over its management of the wolf reintroduction program, announced last week they will not bring in any new wolves to the state for the 2026 winter season. CPW was turned down in November by Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Washington residents…
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s wolf experiment has run its course
When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service threatened to terminate Colorado’s ability to oversee the reintroduction of gray wolves last month, it was the latest in a string of setbacks for the misbegotten, beleaguered project. As The Gazette reported, a Dec. 18 letter from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik to Colorado…
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EDITORIAL: Another sign wolf reintroduction needs to halt
Five years after Coloradans voted by a razor-thin margin to reintroduce wolves to Colorado, they are right to look at the job state officials and agencies have done and ponder whether this a dog that just doesn’t hunt. Amid criticism from pro-wolf advocates and anti-reintroduction ranchers alike, is it past time for a moratorium? The…