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I’m concerned about the secrecy:’ As more wolves come to Colorado, Western Slope lawmakers react with trepidation tinyurl.com/5xvk6tshColorado Parks and Wildlife carries out its second gray wolf release in just over a year, Western Slope lawmakers continue to raise concerns with the agency around transparency and preparedness. The episode is the latest in the state’s contentious wolf reintroduction saga as Parks and Wildlife implements a voter-approved mandate that was widely opposed by the Western Slope communities where wolves are now being dropped. Sen. Dylan Roberts (D-Frisco) said it remains to be seen how much Parks and Wildlife has prepared communities for the second round. Roberts represents broad swaths of the central and northern mountain region where much of the wolf activity has been concentrated since the first wolf release in December 2023.I’m concerned about the secrecy — people need to know where they’re going to go,” Catlin said. “… we’re getting to the point where it’s hard for people who are my constituents to trust (Parks and Wildlife). And we need to be able to trust the state.” All-of us can’t say how well Colorado talks to ranchers only what we see in print.Trusting the state is an issue and look who took off and went to Canada on a weekend for wolves. Perhaps they knew to the “howl” that would happen if people were aware..Just get it done, completed and handle the persons and the behavior as it comes later.Now the must build relationships that are struggling. Would the people, have objected about trip ? Of course things are hanging by a thread at this point Where are the wolves ?. That is the next chapterin this “wild west sage”Finish your reading at the link please:tinyurl.com/5xvk6tshPhoto: I Stock ... See MoreSee Less

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tinyurl.com/mt2236t8This was offered from Aspen Daily News and the issues of of the reintroduction to Colorado with an increase in wolvesThe howling: Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program off to a rocky startAt this juncture, CPW is scheduled to release another 10 to 15 wolves — this time procured from British Columbia — “sometime in January.” Might happen next week. Might have happened last week. Might be happening right now. CPW is tight-lipped about such things, out of reasonable concern for the safety of the wolves (as well as any rancher who’s willing to let wolves be released on their private property). What we do know is that north of the border, the capture process officially started Friday, Jan. 10, and the whole process could take upwards of two weeks.Three counties are on the release shortlist: Eagle, Garfield and Pitkin. Again, CPW ain’t saying. Either way, there is a very good chance that, by the end of the month (maybe by the end of this sentence), residents of the Roaring Fork Valley might very well be hearing a distant howl that has not been heard in 80 years echoing through the mountains of home.The media has been on the wolf reintroduction story like flies on dung. Every angle has been covered ad nauseam.Most of the stories that have been penned about Colorado wolf reintroduction program say nothing more than words to the effect of, “The wolves will be coming from British Columbia.” It sounds so benign, like they will be rounded up by some earth goddess sprinkling fairy dust or a First Peoples shaman walking into the forest with a handful of sage and asking for volunteers. Like a pack of wolves will then come bounding out of the woods saying, “Yes, take me! I’ve always wanted to visit Colorado!” In the opinion of environmentalists, the clear-cutting of the old-growth forests in British Columbia is directly applicable to the shocking wolf-management situation in Canada’s westernmost province, which is half as large as Texas with a population less than Tennessee — and, in turn, to the on-ground implementation of Proposition 114 some thousand miles to the south.Mollie Cameron is the lead wolf campaigner for an environmental organization called Pacific Wild, which, she says, has been fighting for the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat since the 1980s.Cameron says the provincial government has killed, mainly via aerial gunning from helicopters, 2,192 gray wolves — the species being reintroduced in Colorado — over the past decade, ostensibly as a means of helping endangered caribou populations grow. That number does not include the additional 6,000 or so wolves that have been killed by private citizens through hunting and trapping. (There are currently about 8,000 wolves living in B.C., according to Cameron.) This article to my eyes has turned into an encyclopedia not newspaper. I can’t begin saying all that is enclosed and I must ask you to continue reading At the link below. When you end the article you will understand why I can’t cover her and you must in your reading.At the link below:tinyurl.com/mt2236t8Photo: Deby Dixon of YNP ... See MoreSee Less

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