With warmer weather and decreasing restrictions, more people are recreating in the outdoors, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeing an increase in the number of sightings of potential wolves in the state. “Public reporting vastly increases our ability to know what’s happening across the state,” says Dan Prenzlow, Director[Read More…]
Tag: Wolves
Farm Bureau raises $68K to oppose wolves
[responsivevoice voice=”US English Female” buttontext=”Listen to this”] Rio Blanco County Farm Bureau is pleased to announce that the Colorado Farm Bureau Federation has matched $34,000 raised at our local Feb. 22 Dance Without Wolves event for a total of $68,000 to Coloradoans Protecting Wildlife (CPW). Dance Without Wolves was a[Read More…]
(Opinion) Wolves and pandemics: let’s not get medieval
MEEKER | In his March 9 piece to OutThere Colorado, Joey Bunch provided his version of medical advice to the citizens of Colorado: Don’t hang out with wolves and don’t eat one. His source of advice is former head of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources Greg Walcher who recently asserted[Read More…]
Opinion: It’s dangerous to mess with Mother Nature
RBC | A famous 1970s TV commercial warned, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” In fact, it’s worse than “not nice” — it’s dangerous. Coloradans will make a momentous decision on this year’s ballot, whether to mess with Mother Nature by introducing non-native wolves to the state, without a[Read More…]
Woolgrowers urged to speak up about wolf reintroduction, but in the right way
RBC | “We better join arms,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife Regional Manager JT Romantzke said. “We’re in the middle of a war right now.” Those in attendance for the annual meeting of the Rio Blanco County Woolgrowers’ Association weren’t surprised by Romantzke’s words.
Another wolf sighting in Moffat County
RBC | According to a press release from Colorado Parks and Wildlife released on Tuesday, a group of wolves has again been verified in Moffat County. It is likely that the latest sighting is the same pack previously seen in that area.
Letter: Wolves deserve better
Dear Editor: Wolves are magnificent animals, and have a place in nature, but the real question is, “Is it our place to interfere with their natural migration into Colorado or should we impose human desires on nature by forcing them into Colorado?” Multiple times, state wildlife experts including Colorado Parks[Read More…]
Letter: Protect our way of life: say ‘no’ to wolves
Dear Editor: It was good to see letters to the editor from Mr. McKay and Gus Halandras about wolf introduction. I would like to add my own letter to the mix. It bothers me that people talk about the “re-introduction” of the Canadian gray wolf to Colorado. The Canadian gray[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Collective grief
Announcements that the wolves have indeed migrated into this part of the state and that the owners of the local coal mine plan to shut it down by 2030 cast a pall over our communities last week. By Saturday I found myself struggling with something familiar and uncomfortable: grief. I[Read More…]
CPW confirms wolf presence
RBC | Even as the Colorado Secretary of State announced Monday that the “Restoration of Gray Wolves” initiative qualified for the 2020 General Election ballot, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials in Northwest Colorado are investigating an eyewitness report in October of six large canids traveling together (see video at the[Read More…]
Wolf supporters say they gathered 200,000 signatures, enough for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot
By Jason Blevins | [email protected] Courtesy of the Colorado Sun RBC | The fight to return wolves to Colorado’s West Slope begins now. With wolf pack supporters planning on Tuesday to submit more than 208,000 signatures supporting a November 2020 ballot measure calling for the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado,[Read More…]
Wyoming wolf sighted in Jackson County
RBC I A wolf recently sighted and photographed in Jackson County, Colorado, was confirmed by Wyoming Game and Fish to be a dispersing male gray wolf from Wyoming.
