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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/map-shows-far-colorados-transplanted-190803933.html



CPW's December release of 10 collared gray wolves from Oregon was just the first phase of the agency's voter-mandated plan to put viable populations of wolves back on the Colorado landscape. "We've completed our goal for this season and then we're going to start another reintroduction in December of 2024," he says. "The overall plan is to introduced 30 to 50 wolves over the next three to five years."

Notice, Denver is not in this area. The slim margin of votes that passed the measure doesn’t need to put up with the consequences.

Ken

Why stop there?

We can find enough mitochondrial DNA from the extinct Haast’s Eagle to resurrect it, using the closely related Little Eagle. Once we get a few breeding pairs, establish them in Denver, in close proximity to some homeless camp, and let the 33 pound birds go to work. They killed and ate 510 pound Moas, homeless drug addicts should be a snap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast's_eagle

Best,
Ted

I am not very happy about this, or any wildlife management via the ballot box. We have Biologists and a host of others within our Parks and Wildlife dept that are far better suited to make these decisions. I'm not so sure the Wolves would not have established themselves anyway, we had recently documented pups born in CO with no human help, they have been seen here for years. I would not be surprised at all if they are documented in Boulder County this summer, they are currently just on the other side of the divide.

This is the same way Spring bear hunting and hunting Bears with dogs was banned, no science just Disney at the ballot box. Fast forward 20 plus years and we now have way too many Bears.

Moas probably taste better

I don't know, but I was guessing that this was a collar exercise. It's a feel good wildlife story, but might be intended to help prosecute "criminals", who were protecting their stock.

Follow-up related article: They've become such a problem they now have to be hunted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/western-wolves-made-comeback-now-170152831.html

I hunt east of Meeker, CO. When we were visiting with the rancher, he told us, as it stands right now, you better not shoot a wolf even it is causing livestock loss. Once the wolves get into the steep valleys, it will be a long time to eliminate them. Another bad decision done by ballot and not common sense or science.

Ken

The GA DNR has reintroduced red wolves to an area of N. Georgia. I have no hopes that they will thrive and expand their range, however strongly I wish that they would. My coyotes could use some help controlling the plague of deer here.

If I could get my hands on some CWD in a bottle and release it here, and not get caught, I would. "Hunting deer" here is a joke. Our limit is 10 deer a season. Anyone who cannot kill 10 deer here during the season should take up playing checkers with Ray Charles. But, the problem is, they won't. All they want to shoot is a "trophy buck".

Stan, is this a new release or an old one? There was a pocket of red wolves in SW GA, but the stock has probably been diluted via interbreeding with coyotes. The red wolf is not as large as the grey. Gil