Colorado soon to have wolves at the door: Is state ready?
By Theo Stein, Denver Post Environment Writer
Seven years after they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, wolves are drawing closer and closer to Colorado.
This winter, a pack of wandering wolves was heard howling on the outskirts of Lander, Wyo.
Soon after, a Wyoming Game and Fish biologist spied a lone wolf roaming Wyoming's Red Desert, a little more than a day's jaunt from the Colorado line.
Two polls in the last decade found that 66 percent of Colorado residents support the return of the wolf, which many biologists say would help control the state's runaway elk herds.
A recent, peer-reviewed study by several top wolf researchers shows the state's 25 million acres of public land and fat elk herds could support 1,000 wolves - making Colorado the best uninhabited wolf habitat left in the country.
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By Theo Stein, Denver Post Environment Writer
Seven years after they were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, wolves are drawing closer and closer to Colorado.
This winter, a pack of wandering wolves was heard howling on the outskirts of Lander, Wyo.
Soon after, a Wyoming Game and Fish biologist spied a lone wolf roaming Wyoming's Red Desert, a little more than a day's jaunt from the Colorado line.
Two polls in the last decade found that 66 percent of Colorado residents support the return of the wolf, which many biologists say would help control the state's runaway elk herds.
A recent, peer-reviewed study by several top wolf researchers shows the state's 25 million acres of public land and fat elk herds could support 1,000 wolves - making Colorado the best uninhabited wolf habitat left in the country.
Full story here
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