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The Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund led the campaign in support of Proposition 114. [15] [16] It was argued that wolves would "restore Colorado's natural balance", and that reintroduction was needed to counter the effects of the gray wolf's protections under the Endangered Species Act being removed in October 2020.
The rural Western Slope, where the wolves will be reintroduced, voted heavily against the measure, while the more populous Front Range mostly supported the measure. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Passage of the referendum was opposed by many cattle ranchers, elk hunters, farmers and others in rural areas that argue wolf reintroduction is bad policy which will ...
The bid to capture them goes against Col. Wildlife agencies are trying to capture and relocate the first pack of wolves that formed under Colorado's ambitious wolf reintroduction program after the ...
The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project had spearheaded Colorado's wolf reintroduction. ... Ranchers against rerelease of any pack members. Tim Ritschard, Grand County rancher and president of the Middle ...
The reintroduction of wolves, an apex predator, has had important impacts on biodiversity within Yellowstone National Park. Through predation of elk populations, wolf reintroduction has coincided with an increase of new-growth vegetation among certain plants, such as aspen and willow trees, [20] which elk previously grazed upon at unsustainable ...
A federal judge is set to consider on Thursday a request by Colorado's cattle industry to block the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to the state under a voter-approved initiative. State ...
A federal judge has allowed the reintroduction of gray wolves in Colorado to move forward this month by denying a request Friday from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay in the ...
Wolf after re-introduction. The history of wolves in Yellowstone includes the extirpation, absence and reintroduction of wild populations of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. When the park was created in 1872, wolf populations were already in decline in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.