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Wolves Return To Colorado?

Take Action To Help Protect Them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking News

 

The article below from High Country News is extraordinarily

interesting and begins to confirm what we have suspected for some time. WOLF receives a number of calls and emails

suggesting that residents in the state are seeing wolves in various wild

areas. Please write to the editor and

thank them for their wonderful coverage.

The Action Alert below that article gives you an opportunity

to write to the Governor of Colorado and voice your support for the returning

wolves. It is going to be very

critical that the elected officials hear from the citizens in order to

prevent Colorado from going the way of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.

 

Thank you.

Frank Wendland

Cofounder, WOLF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking news...

Wolves return to Colorado?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officially,

there are no wolves in Colorado.

Mounting

evidence may soon prove the officials wrong.

In the Feb. 15 issue of High Country News,

acclaimed journalist and HCN Contributing Editor Michelle Nijhuis reports

on a pile of clues indicating that wolves may have returned to Colorado,

to stay, after a seven decade absence. From the story:

Like most scientists, Eisenberg and her colleagues

are cautious. For months, even among themselves, they half-jokingly spoke

of "visitors from the North," reluctant to name a species as

controversial as the gray wolf. They emphasize that DNA testing, now

under way at a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, is

needed to back up their identification of the animal or animals that

produced the scat and tracks. But whatever the animal is, it appears to

be eating what wild wolves eat, and traveling over the landscape the way

wild wolves do.

 

When wolves arrive in an ecosystem, everything changes: the ecology,

the politics, relationships both animal and human. "We know more about

wolves, and the management of wolves, than we do about many other forms

of wildlife," says Douglas Smith, leader of the Yellowstone wolf

project. "But we rarely get to put it into practice, because people

freak out, flat-out freak out, when a wolf shows up."

 

Wolves herald a grand experiment -- and in Colorado, that experiment

may already be under way.

 

 

 

 

Read

the whole story

 

 

 

 

And be sure to

listen to Nijhuis interview Michael Soule, of the

Wildlands Network, here:

http://www.hcn.org/articles/soule-on-wolves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Light in the Darkness for Wolves

Dear

All,

In the midst of all the bad news for wolves comes a reason

for hope.

We’ve just learned that wolves have returned to

Colorado—for the first time in nearly 70 years! Sightings, tracks and

scat all indicate that wolves are back and that they may even have wolf

pups!

Please join us in telling Colorado Governor Bill Ritter

that you support the return of wolves and

that Colorado's state wildlife agency is expected to recognize that these wolves are federally

protected and take appropriate measures for their

safety.

We’re thrilled. We’re excited.

We’re also scared for them.

We’re

scared because the anti-wolf forces will be mobilizing and pressuring their

elected officials to have this pioneering wolf group eliminated and

wolf poachers will be waiting opportunistically.

I am inspired and amazed at the

journey these wolves must have taken to get from the Yellowstone region

to Colorado. To make it to Colorado safely they

had to cross a landscape fragmented by development and mined with

predator-killing devices, while escaping hunter’s guns and

avoiding rancher’s livestock.

But now these wolves are going to need our political

support to protect them from the animosity and hatred that still survive. Tell the Governor that you’re one of the 71% of

Coloradoans that want wolves in the state.

Let

us begin afresh. Let’s all celebrate this lupine

achievement.

To

learn more about WildEarth Guardians’ commitment to return wolves

to Colorado read our vision plan or read about our lawsuit to require Rocky Mountain

National Park to consider wolf reintroduction.

 

 

 

For the wild,

 

 

John Horning

Executive Director

WildEarth Guardians

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photo credit Joel Satore

 

 

 

 

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Colorado!

 

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