The numbers show that wolf-killing programs are a colossal waste of taxpayer money.
Proposition 114
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Opinion: The gray wolf is not a trophy to be hunted
Like many of my fellow Coloradans, I have been fortunate to have spent many days hiking and camping on our state’s magnificent public lands. I have learned from years sleeping under the open sky that the simple act of being in wilderness is an inspiring and necessary part of a life well lived. After college, […]
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Opinion: Colorado passed Proposition 114 to restore wolves
Gray wolves have been missing from Colorado for almost 80 years. At one point in time, more than 2 million wolves roamed throughout our country. However, by the 1940s, wolves had been aggressively killed off by humans in most of the western United States. Now, with the passage of Proposition 114, we have the opportunity […]
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Opinion: It’s not ranchers or wolves. It’s ranchers AND wolves
With or without Proposition 114, a few gray wolves are now back in a small part of northern Colorado. Whether they will be welcomed for the longer term is the question. Recent predations of livestock in northwestern Colorado by some of these wolves has many producers on edge. But predation by carnivores is nothing new. […]
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Carman: Face it Colorado, no matter how wolves are reintroduced, there will be blood
The margin was only 1%, but the outcome was dramatic. Voters, mostly from the Front Range, endorsed Proposition 114 to reintroduce wolves in Colorado beginning in 2023. The campaigns on both sides were heated. Then, once the votes were tallied and the measure squeaked by, most city folk moved on to think about other things, […]
Posted inEnvironment, News, Outdoors
Discovery of gray wolf pups won’t change Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s reintroduction work
That Colorado wildlife officials have sighted gray wolf pups in Colorado – the first in the state in 80 years — will not delay or slow the state’s voter-mandated reintroduction of the predators. “The ballot measure requires the establishment of a self-sustaining population, and this pack is not a population,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman […]
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Western Colorado is wary of gray wolf reintroduction. Will they have to pay for it, too?
When Colorado voters in November narrowly passed a ballot initiative to reintroduce gray wolves in western Colorado, detractors said it was a prime example of the state’s deepening rural-urban divide. It was urban voters on the Front Range who pushed the measure to passage, over the objections of rural and ranching Colorado. Now a bipartisan […]
Posted inElection 2020, News, Outdoors, Politics and Government
It’s official: Voters decide to reintroduce wolves in Colorado
Unleash the hounds. Proposition 114 was decided Thursday as votes from heavily populated Front Range counties pushed the wolf reintroduction plan to victory. The measure, which tasks Colorado Parks and Wildlife with crafting a plan by the end of 2023 to reintroduce wolves into the Western Slope, was too close to call on Tuesday night […]
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“We knew it would be tight”: Colorado wolf reintroduction riding on razor-thin vote margin
The tightest statewide race of the 2020 election in Colorado was about wolves. As counties meticulously counted dense ballots on Wednesday, Proposition 114 remained close, hovering, at points, within hundreds of votes of an automatic recount. The measure that would task Colorado Parks and Wildlife with creating a gray wolf reintroduction plan by the end […]
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How the 11 statewide ballot measures fared in Colorado. In short, it’s a split verdict.
Colorado voters made decisions on a roster of major policy positions that liberal and conservative interests put on the 2020 ballot. A number of the questions appeared confusing to voters — particularly the fiscal ones — and tens of thousands voted on the top candidates but not the ballot measures, an analysis shows. Here’s a […]