Reintroducing gray wolves to Colorado is a complex, layered process

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By Sam Brasch
September 7, 2022
Voters in Colorado will decide on a ballot initiative this fall to reintroduce gray wolves into the southern Rockies. But a lawmaker in neighboring Utah is pushing legislation that would condemn Colorado if it passed.Voters in Colorado will decide on a ballot initiative this fall to reintroduce gray wolves into the southern Rockies. But a lawmaker in neighboring Utah is pushing legislation that would condemn Colorado if it passed.U.S. National Park Service
Colorado voters approved proposition 114 in 2020 which calls for Colorado Parks and Wildlife to reintroduce the gray wolf on the Western Slope by the end of 2023.

State biologists will likely park trucks somewhere on the Western Slope, open cages, and release gray wolves in a little more than a year. What we don’t yet know are the details. Exactly where that will occur, and how many wolves. We also don’t know how the state plans to manage the predators once they’re in the wild. CPR’s Sam Brasch has been following the debates over the state’s wolf reintroduction plan and has an update.

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