It’s been a few months since our last Colorado Outdoors Podcast episode, and that’s because we’ve been pretty busy here at Colorado Parks and Wildlife. In December, CPW staff captured 10 gray wolves from Oregon and translocated them to Grand and Summit counties in Colorado.
With the successful release, CPW fulfilled the will of the voters who passed Proposition 114 in 2020. These wolves will be managed under the Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan, which was unanimously approved by the Parks and Wildlife Commission in May of 2023.
Ultimately, CPW plans to recover and maintain a viable, self-sustaining wolf population in Colorado while balancing the need to manage interactions between wolves, people and livestock.
This project marks another milestone in the long CPW tradition of species recovery in Colorado.
While the wolf reintroduction story could take up multiple podcast episodes, we narrowed our focus in this episode to take listeners behind the scenes and into the minds of our staff and give you their perspective on the capture process in Oregon and from the release sites in Colorado.
The episode starts with audio from Oregon of one of Colorado’s new gray wolves howling in her crate the night before being translocated to Colorado. Then, listen as we are joined by Wildlife Research Scientist Ellen Brandell, Wolf Monitoring and Data Coordinator Brenna Cassidy, Wildlife Veterinarian Pauline Nol and Public Information Officer Rachael Gonzales about their experience on the capture team in Oregon.
Then, we pivot to Eric Odell, the Wolf Conservation Program Manager, and Reid DeWalt, the Assistant Director for Aquatic, Terrestrial and Natural Resources branch of CPW, as they take us through the releases in Colorado.
Podcast hosted by John Livingston, Southwest Region public information officer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Produced by Rachael Gonzales, Northwest Region public information officer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Art19 is the host platform and people can also find the podcast online at https://art19.com/shows/colorado-outdoors.
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You will delete this anyway since it is anti-wolf. I encourage the other states, ranchers, business owners, outfitters, Families with children, campers, hikers, tourists, and hunters to overwhelm you with lawsuits, and the requirement for Colorado to destroy every wolf they have released into the state legally and illegally. This last and final pack of wolves were already livestock killers then you release them into Colorado where Cattle, sheep and other livestock are already here and established. If you think this is not a planned act of negligence as defined by the court, then it is time for the federal courts to file actions and fines against Colorado to protect the above for your planned and executed action. For details § 18-9-206, is only one of the crimes that you have committed by your action! Also 438 U.S. 586 (1978) Midigating Factors,923. 18 U.S.C. § 371—Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, CRM 1-99, CRM 101-199, CRM 201-299, CRM 300-399, CRM 401-499, Fraud Against the Government 9-43.000,4-8.215 – Strict Misdemeanor Liability,18 U.S.C. §§ 3591(a)(2) and 3592(b), (c), or (d), 18 U.S.C. § 3591(a)(2); and (3) the existence of the statutory aggravating factors specified in, as relevant, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3592(b), (c), or (d). and 1-10.000 – Litigation Against State Governments; just for Starters. This will provide prosecution grounds against Colorado, by the other 49 stares, but is to be prosicuted at a federal level because of the damages done to each of the plaintiffs.
Anonymous, How many times did you try to pass the Bar? Your “passion” seems overdetermined. I believe this release was well tested at law before the release was finally accomplished. Beat your dead horse somewhere else.
For the record, CPW will not delete this anonymous anti-wolf post, despite it being sheer boneheaded nonsense.
No one will delete your post, despite it being a whiney, wholly uniformed rant.
It is apparent to me that a very inportant word was left out of the phraise “wolves, people, and livestock”. The word is WILDLIFE!
Not for nothing, but it’s “phrase,” and every word besides “wolves, people and livestock” was left out. (Nudge, nudge, a wink is as good as a nod to a blind bat. )
Please investigate the three calves recently that have been killed by a wolf. It feels like a set up. Were these calves just left out away from the herd?? There was just one wolf involved. What about the pack? Why was just the hind end of the calf eaten?
Confirmed wolf depredation info can be found here – https://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/CON-Wolf-Depredation.aspx