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Bill Fales and Marj Perry, a couple who have been ranching for decades in the Crystal River Valley 4 miles south of Carbondale, said spending additional time and money trying to safeguard their herd will pile another hardship onto a business already rife with growing challenges and shrinking rewards.![]()
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Jonathan Proctor, director, Rockies and Plains Program for the conservation group Defenders of Wildlife, was a member of a special committee called the Stakeholders Advisory Group established by the state of Colorado to make recommendations on the wolf reintroduction plan. He steadfastly believes that reintroduction is the best thing to do for improving the ecosystem in Colorado.![]()
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Fales and Perry credited Proctor for his sincerity and integrity. They just aren’t sold on the techniques being recommended to ranchers. The couple is part of an association that grazes cattle on private land in Jerome Park in the Thompson Divide area southwest of Carbondale. Some members of the association also hold a grazing permit on roughly 35,000 acres of national forest in the mountains above Jerome Park.![]()
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On the range, Fales and Perry don’t believe using tools such as electric fences is practical nor is fladry, rope barriers with red flags attached that flap in the wind and frighten wolves. Elk will crash through the fences, Fales said. Physically forcing the cattle to move at regular intervals, another technique to guard against predation, sounds great in theory but is difficult to pull off, he said.![]()
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Tomorrow, CPW is holding their first meeting to discuss the details of their draft Wolf Reintroduction Plan. ![]()
The meeting will be live-streamed on YouTube from 8:30am-12:30pm. ![]()
Link for the agenda and livestream link: cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Commission/2022/December/December_PWC_Agenda_FINAL_11302022.pdf![]()
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