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It’s official: Voters decide to reintroduce wolves in Colorado
Proposition 114 passed as a flurry of Front Range-votes widened the initiative’s margin of victory, paving the way for the animals’ return to the Western Slope.
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“We knew it would be tight”: Colorado wolf reintroduction riding on razor-thin vote margin
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Coloradans are barely howling for the reintroduction of gray wolves
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Trump officials end gray wolf protections across most of U.S.
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The clock is ticking for citizen ballot measures, but the campaigns are paused due to the coronavirus
The advocates behind more than a dozen of ballot measures are wondering whether Gov. Jared Polis will grant a reprieve from the rules
DNA testing confirms first wolf pack in Colorado in 70 years
DNA testing of scat samples taken near an elk carcass in Moffat County in January confirmed the samples came from wolves
The 2020 battle to control Colorado’s state Senate is shaping up to be a big money election
Four super PACs tied to Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature and 2020 ballot committees reported millions in donations in the latest reports
Coloradans will decide in 2020 whether to reintroduce gray wolves in the state
The gray wolf has been successfully reintroduced to a number of U.S. states. It was eradicated in Colorado in the 1940s.
Wolf supporters say they gathered 200,000 signatures, enough for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot
Opponents of Colorado wolf reintroduction are preparing a public education campaign as the battle over the animals shifts into a new gear
Could Colorado see the return of grizzlies, wolves and wild bison? Here’s how Montanans coexist with them.
Up north, grizzlies are roaming in places they haven’t been in decades and there are enough wolves that hunters are allowed to shoot five apiece
Colorado wildlife officials are investigating a pair of possible wolf sightings amid ballot push
The last confirmed Colorado wolf sightings were near Walden in 2015.
Federal officials hold only public hearing on fate of gray wolves’ endangered listing
An effort is underway in Colorado to ask voters in November 2020 whether to sign off on reintroducing gray wolves in the state
Colorado question pitting ranchers vs. wolf advocates is heading for supermarket parking lots
Supporters will need 124,632 signatures by Dec. 13 to ask voters next year whether the predator should be reintroduced to the Western Slope. They’ll start gathering them this week.