Colorado Parks & Wildlife is hosting a series of education sessions dedicated to the gray wolf reintroduction program. This is the third in the series, recorded on June 16, 2021. Learn about how states like Montana work with agricultural producers to prevent and reduce wolf depredation on livestock and how producers are compensated for losses. 

Speakers:

• Luke Hoffman, CPW Game Damage Coordinator

• Nathan Lance, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Wolf Management Specialist

• George Edwards, Executive Director of the Montana Livestock Loss Board 

In November 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 114, a ballot initiative to introduce gray wolves on the Western Slope. Colorado is part of the gray wolf’s native range, but wolves were eradicated from the state by the 1940s. Over the past decade, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service restored gray wolves into Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. Individual wolves, and most recently a group of wolves in Moffat County, have been periodically migrating into Colorado. Now, by voter mandate, wolves will be reintroduced to Colorado no later than December 31, 2023.

As the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission works to develop a plan to robust, adaptive management plan to reintroduce wolves in Colorado, they are holding statewide hearings about scientific, economic, and social considerations and hosting education sessions like these.

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