Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the number of range riders employed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife this year and to provide additional information about when the wolf conflict ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently submitted over 400 pages of public announcements and presentations, intergovernmental agreements, email correspondence, and reports to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is threatening to take over Colorado’s wolf restoration program from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Brian Nesvik, the federal agency’s director, sent a letter on Dec.

An uncollared wolf that has been killing sheep in northwestern Colorado was shot by a team of state and federal officials during an authorized operation to lethally remove the animal. Kurt Holtzen, a ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is monitoring four wolf den sites and has sighted pups. Officials have not released when and where pups were sighted. Colorado wildlife officials have sighted wolf pups.

As the Elk and Lee fires burned and grew in Rio Blanco County earlier this month, Colorado Parks and Wildlife became aware that an uncollared wolf was attacking sheep in the region. “At that time, the ...

3: The number of Mexican gray wolves killed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this year. 286: The number of Mexican wolves in the wild at the end of 2024. 11%: The wolf population increase from 2023 ...