RBC | Wolf introduction into Western Colorado public lands (forests, wilderness, BLM) and vicariously into privately owned adjacent lands poses a serious and lethal risk for wildlife, domestic livestock, and to human health and safety.
Rocky Mountain Wolf Project advocates assert that populating Western Colorado with an initial 500 Canadian wolves (previously exterminated throughout the lower 48 states in the 1930s) would pose “no significant risk” to livestock producers, nor to native wildlife (e.g., ungulates…
Hydatid disease is caused by carnivores, not just wolves. You can get it from a domestic dog or cat. A portion of the coyote and fox already present likely carry it.
The Yellowstone wolf introduction did thin the elk heards, but to a healthier density. It allowed for the rehabilitation of so many environments in Yellowstone. The elk population was out of control, unchecked without wolves.
Have you considered the positive benfits of wolves naturally managing species which carry CWD?
“Nature gonna nature” when you allow it to, but you take a keystone species out and disease becomes rampant as food sources dwindle because those prey species are left uncontrolled. Humans don’t do a good enough job by themselves.
Unless you want to raise children to pack hunt artiodactyls.. which I would also be for. Youth need to get outdoors more.