RBC | Gray wolves were eradicated from Colorado by the 1940s to protect domestic livestock, but groups like the Sierra Club are working to change public perception of wolves in hopes of reintroducing the animals to their former habitat. United States Fish and Wildlife Service has restored wolf populations to Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. Colorado is the last holdout. A few wolves have migrated into Colorado’s North and Middle Park, but the…
Reintroduction of wolves to Colorado is the topic of Dec. 7 Sierra Club meeting in Steamboat
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Being from Montana. I have one piece of advise … Don’t Do It …
Let them come on their own
Big mistake…Idaho,, Montana,,, and Wyoming have all the facts…Don’t let the Sierra Club idiots convince you otherwise…
Their information is false. Oppose wolf introduction! The elk herd in Yellowstone Ecosystem has been devastated, livestock growers do not get reimbursed for all wolf kills, inly a very small portion. The wolves are a menace ip here in Wyoming
Clarkson Rollins….unlike moronic idiots like you who listen to the propaganda of the ranchers instead of actual science Colorado will make an educated choice unlike the media educated morons of montana (notherm rednecks)
predation, even with bears included, didn’t explain elk’s low pregnancy rates. A changing climate, on the other hand, did. Severe droughts since 2000, possibly correlated with climate change, reduced grass production in the areas of the park where elk migrate in the summer. Elk were forced to consume immense quantities of nutrient-poor fodder to try and meet their caloric needs, but most females were still undernourished and therefore unable to conceive
In the Greater Yellowstone region, wolves take 8,448 to 11,616 elk per year
I humans reported killing 25,852 elk in 2016, according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department
DID YOU KNOW….In Idaho and Montana the August 5 2010 ruling by activist Judge Molloy created such an uproar that the Governor of MT told his ranchers to start shooting wolves and told any state employee that cooperated with a Federal agent in regard to dead wolves would no longer have a job. These groups knew that they had pushed too far with their abuse of the Endangered Species Act and 9 of the 12 groups that had their name on that law suit tried to back out and get Molloy to reverse his ruling. It took an act of congress to put an end to the abuse of the Endangered Species Act for those states! You see these groups can continue to pimp wolves without regard to common sense because Judges like Molloy interpret “into the majority of their former range” to mean the majority of states like WI MT or WA should have wolves! It is unrealistic and unattainable without irrevocable harm to wolves and their reputation to have them at levels that wolf pimps want. They do so for controversy…..controversy gets “donate now” buttons pressed and easy pickings for EAJA dollars .
Stop the abuse of the Endangered Species ACT…….