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https://biologicaldiversity.or...g-border-2023-02-22/ For Immediate Release, February 22, 2023 Contact: Collette Adkins, (651) 955-3821, cadkins@biologicaldiversity.org Lawsuit Launched to Protect Colorado Wolves From Hunters at Wyoming Border Forest Service Pressed to Ban Hunting, Trapping in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest DENVER— The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the U.S. Forest Service of its intent to sue over the agency’s failure to protect wolves from hunters in Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. The lawsuit would seek a ban on wolf hunting and trapping in the entire forest, which straddles the Colorado-Wyoming border. “Colorado’s precious, endangered wolves shouldn’t be gunned down when they wander across a state border they don’t even know exists,” said Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation program director at the Center. “To truly help Colorado’s wolves recover, the Forest Service needs to move quickly to ban wolf hunting and trapping in the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. Our federal public lands should be safe havens for rare wildlife.” In January 2021 two wolves that entered Colorado from Wyoming were documented travelling together. That June agency staff observed six black pups with this pair in Jackson County, Colorado. These pups are the first known wild wolves born in Colorado since the 1920s. This family is now referred to as the North Park pack. In the fall of 2022 Colorado Parks and Wildlife received reports that Wyoming hunters killed three black sub-adult female wolves within 10 miles of the Colorado border, in central Wyoming near the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. Agency scientists believe that these wolves were young members of the North Park pack. “It’s inexcusable that Colorado wolves face death when they cross into Wyoming,” said Adkins. “Until federal protections are restored to Wyoming’s wolves, the U.S. Forest Service needs to step up and ensure wolves aren’t killed on federal lands.” Wolves that travel across the border into Colorado or are reintroduced into Colorado are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act. However, wolves that enter Wyoming are not protected and can be killed under Wyoming state law. The Endangered Species Act requires federal agencies like the U.S. Forest Service to conserve endangered wolves. Today’s legal notice explains that by failing to ban wolf hunting and trapping on the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest or otherwise take actions to promote the survival and recovery of Colorado wolves, the Forest Service is violating federal law. The Endangered Species Act requires that parties submit a 60-day notice of intent to sue before a lawsuit can be filed. If the Service fails to remedy its legal violations within 60 days, the Center intends to file a formal lawsuit. Background Individual wolves from Wyoming have occasionally crossed the Wyoming-Colorado border into the northern portions of Colorado. Over the past decade, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has had confirmed or probable wolf dispersals in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2015 and then annually since 2019. In 2020 Colorado voters passed Proposition 114, which calls for reintroduction of wolves by the end of 2023. The agency plans to release about 30 to 50 wolves in total over a three-to-five-year time frame. Proposition 114 also requires the development of a science-based plan to ensure the wolves “help restore a critical balance in nature.” Today is the last day for the public to submit comments on that plan, as well as the final public hearing. Last week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposed rule to govern management of reintroduced Colorado wolves. Wildlife conservation groups oppose provisions that would allow livestock operators and federal and state agents to kill wolves, even on Colorado’s public lands, without requiring the use of nonlethal conflict prevention measures first. In 2022 a federal court restored federal protection to wolves across most of the lower 48 states, including in Colorado. However, these protections do not extend to Wyoming or the rest of the northern Rocky Mountains population. The Center and its allies have filed a lawsuit to restore those protections. Kathi kathi@wildtravel.net 708-425-3552 "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." | ||
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Proposition 114 was passed by the Boulder/Denver tree huggers who outnumber us country mice. They specified the re-introduction of wolves in areas distant from their areas. Can't wait until some migrate over their way and start killing their pets and backyard wildlife. | |||
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It is dumb idea passed by people that aren’t affected by the reintroduction. I think we spent close to $1m on a study to reintroduce the wolves in CO. I wonder what it will cost the state to paint the wolves orange and blue so people in Wyoming know they are CO wolves? How can a state law impact the federal lands in another state? Ken | |||
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https://biologicaldiversity.or...-meeting-2023-02-22/ For Immediate Release, February 22, 2023 Contact: Lindsay Larris, WildEarth Guardians, (720) 334-7636, llarris@wildearthguardians.org Michael Robinson, Center for Biological Diversity, (575) 313-7017 michaelr@biologicaldiversity.org Michael Saul, Western Watersheds Project, (303) 915-8308 michael@westernwatersheds.org Delia Malone, Colorado Sierra Club, delia.malone@rmc.sierraclub.org Coloradans Strongly Support Wolf Restoration at Denver Meeting Comments Highlight Public Desire to Protect Wolves DENVER— Scores of Coloradans today voiced their support for science-based, ecologically friendly wolf restoration throughout Colorado during a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission hearing on a draft wolf plan. Commenters opposed any future trophy hunts as well as the killing of wolves that prey on livestock without requirements that ranchers first use non-lethal measures to avoid conflict. In 2020 Colorado voters approved Proposition 114, which requires that gray wolves be reintroduced to the state by the end of 2023. The commission must implement a science-based plan to restore a “self-sustaining” population of wolves with the intent to “help restore a critical balance in nature.” The law also designates wolves as a “non-game” species, which prohibits recreational trophy hunting and trapping. An August 2022 poll showed that most Colorado voters, including majorities of Republicans and people on the Western Slope, don’t want wolves trophy hunted or trapped. Despite this, the commission included a potential wolf trophy hunt in the draft wolf plan. “Opponents of Proposition 114 are practically salivating over this draft plan, and it’s not because they belatedly appreciate that wolves will restore a balance in nature,” said Michael Robinson, a senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Colorado Parks and Wildlife is hoodwinking the public by not revealing that endangered wolves will be gunned down on a regular basis so ranchers won’t have to lift a finger to prevent conflicts. Coloradans voted for science-based approaches to wolf restoration, not shooting wolves from helicopters.” “The commissioners’ support to remove any mention of a recreational wolf hunt in a revised plan positions Colorado to truly become an exemplar for how a state can reintroduce and manage wolves,” said Lindsay Larris, wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians. “The removal of language hinting at a potential future trophy hunt honors the intent of the voters of Colorado were very clear: the gray wolf is to be restored to Colorado, not hunted and trapped as a repeat of a dark history.” Even before potential trophy hunting, the plan would likely result in a high rate of government killings of wolves because it would not require livestock owners to take any non-lethal measures to prevent wolf predation on their stock. The most important such measure would be removal or destruction of the carcasses of non-wolf-killed livestock to prevent wolves from scavenging in the vicinity of nearby livestock that are vulnerable to predation. “Colorado’s Wildlife Commission has been entrusted by the voters with correcting a catastrophic historical error — the deliberate eradication of the majestic gray wolf from the state,” said Michael Saul, Colorado director for Western Watersheds Project. “We appreciate the work to date in bringing back the wolf to Colorado, but the law demands, and the voters deserve, more than the current draft plan offers — a healthy population of stable, reproducing wolf packs distributed throughout multiple suitable habitats, free from the human-caused mortality that wiped them out the first time.” “The current version of the plan is more like science fiction than science-based,” said Michelle Lute, Ph.D., the wolf conservation and carnivore conservation director for Project Coyote. “Colorado Parks and Wildlife wants to pretend that lethal control is a legitimate tool but modern, best available science tells us otherwise. Allowing the use of ineffective lethal tools misinforms the public, wastes public resources and increases the risks to wolves and livestock.” “Proposition 114 directs that wolf management is to be guided by best available science, but Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s current draft plan focuses on lethal control and opens the door to trophy hunting — neither are supported by ethics or best available science,” said Delia Malone, wildlife chair for the Colorado Sierra Club. “Non-lethal means of preventing conflict between livestock and wolves is proven effective, while lethal control is both ineffective at preventing conflict and disrupts wolf family social structure, disabling a pack’s ability to survive and perform their role in restoring a critical natural balance.” Commissioners are expected to vote on a final wolf plan at their meeting in Glenwood Springs on May 3 and 4. Because wolves are listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act, there is a concurrent process being led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to write a federal rule guiding wolf management in Colorado. The federal process is expected to finish in time for wolf releases in December 2023. The commission has been taking public comments on the agency’s draft wolf plan since December and is now expected to work with staff to take public input into consideration as a final plan is written. Kathi kathi@wildtravel.net 708-425-3552 "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." | |||
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We need grizzlies to keep the wolf numbers down! Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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Since the meeting was in Denver, of course a majority would support reintroduction of wolves. Take the meeting to Meeker and Craig-results would be different. Ken | |||
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Like many states Colorado population and legislature is dominated by the cites which except for Colorado Springs are predominantly Democratic. When I used to live in Montana, this wasn't the case. Not sure about it now. Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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Awooo werewolves in Boulder! Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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We need Grizzlies to keep the human numbers down.  Grizz When the horse has been eliminated, human life may be extended an average of five or more years. James R. Doolitle I think they've been misunderstood. Timothy Tredwell | |||
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Absolutely! Since we've all agreed that the cause of gloabal warming is human beings, we need to attack the root cause! Grizzlies can help with that. We particularly need them in Colorado. Eating some of our woke environmentalists could only help.  There's saying in Colorado "The best view of Denver is in your rear view mirror" Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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No you dont, just SSS AK-47 The only Communist Idea that Liberals don't like. | |||
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Living in the UP of MI and watching scientific management blown out of the water by courts in WI, MN and MI. I can clearly state that Parvo virus appears to be the best thing going. | |||
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Wonder if some enterprising attorney can find a way to sue and assess every individual wolf supporter for their fair monetary share of damage brought on by the wolves? Of course I really think they should be established in central park, denver, boulder seattle, portland and san fran first Don't limit your challenges . . . Challenge your limits | |||
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I'm telling you grizzlies are the answer to our reintroduced wolf problem Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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Here's a thought. Those wolves originally came into Colorado through Wyoming. So Colorado has no say in what we do with them when they RETURN to Wyoming! Center of the Nation Outfitters | |||
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Paint them green with white trim so we shoot the right ones! | |||
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