![]() ![]() Every once in a while, we hear some good news, and that is what we heard from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Wolves were reintroduced in the northern Rockies in the 1990s, and about 3,000 of the animals now roam portions of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and northern California.Ī remnant population in the western Great Lakes region has expanded to about 4,400 wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.Ī small population of Mexican gray wolves remains protected in the south-west, where federal wildlife managers this week announced they had placed a record 22 captive-born wolf pups into dens in the wild to be raised by surrogate packs. The news is often bad when it comes to animals that seem to be disappearing at an alarming rate. Wildlife advocates see reintroduction in Colorado as a vital step in restoring the wolf more quickly to habitat stretching from the Canada to the Mexico border. Jared Polis’ office said in a news release Wednesday that a state biologist and district wildlife manager each spotted the litter of at least three wolf pups over the weekend. Cattle ranchers, elk hunters, farmers and others in rural areas argue wolf reintroduction is bad policy, as well as a threat to livestock and to a $1bn hunting industry. DENVER (AP) State wildlife officials say the first gray wolf pups since the 1940s have been spotted in Colorado. DENVER Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s, state wildlife officials said Wednesday. Opponents of the reintroduction initiative said the presence of wolves in Colorado showed reintroducing the animals was unnecessary because they could eventually repopulate the state naturally. Photograph: US Fish and Wildlife Service/AP A state biologist and district wildlife manager each spotted the. Jared Polis office, multiple pups with a pair of adult wolves have been observed in Jackson County by a state. DENVER Colorado has its first litter of gray wolf pups since the 1940s years, state wildlife officials said Wednesday. Three grey wolf pups were discovered in northern Colorado over the past week, marking the first born litter in the state in since the 1940s. Federal wildlife managers placed a record 22 captive-born wolf pups into dens in south-western New Mexico. According to a news release from Colorado Gov. JohnPitcher The canine recently sighted in Colorado's Jackson County has been confirmed as a male gray wolf from Wyoming.
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