Tag: Wolf reintroduction

“This is a stick that says: Try nonlethal coexistence methods. Here’s the tools. Here’s the money. Here’s the training. Give it a try, and if you do and you lose livestock, we’ll pay you for them.” 

“It’s a perverse incentive to facilitate wolves killing livestock and for more wolves to be killed. The livestock industry, having failed with a big-money campaign to defeat [2020’s Proposition 114], has worked to subvert it through a wolf plan that includes the absence of a requirement for preventative measures.”

Twelve of the state’s 64 counties voted in favor of bringing wolves to the state. Only five of those are on the Western Slope, home of the proposed wolf-release sites and the lion’s share of ranchers, hunters and outfitters who spoke up at CPW meetings.