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Number and description of reintroduced wolves: Name Sex Age Class Weight Color Pack 2302-OR F Yearling 68 lb Black Five Points 2303-OR M Yearling 76 lb Gray Five Points 2304-OR F Yearling 76 lb Gray Noregaard 2305-OR M Yearling 93 lb Gray Noregaard 2306-OR F Yearling 66 lb Gray Noregaard 2307-OR M Adult 108 lb Black Wenaha 2308-OR F Yearling 74 lb Gray Noregaard 2309-OR M Adult 104 lb Gray Wenaha 2310-OR F Yearling 71 lb Gray Desolation 2312-OR F Yearling 76 lb Gray No Pack Note: All wolves captured, collared, and released in Colorado will use the same naming convention: The first two numbers (23) will indicate the year the animal was captured. The second set of numbers informs biologists of the wolf’s gender (males will have odd numbers, females will have even) and the order in which it was collared. *The “OR” suffix indicates the wolves came from Oregon.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists were careful to select yearling and adult wolves that are mature enough to hunt prey on their own. Wolves are typically born in April of each year, and a wolf that was born in April of 2022 would be almost 20 months old now. That animal is called a yearling. That animal is capable of hunting on its own. Yearlings were candidates for translocation and the majority of the animals CPW translocated were yearlings (previously termed “juvenile”).

A press release was shared documenting the first five animals reintroduced in the state. The remaining release events were not widely shared to help protect the safety and security of the wolves, CPW staff, and the locations of endangered species. These remaining releases occurred on state-owned lands in Grand and Summit counties.

courtesy of Colorado Big Game Smorgasbord!

He also said the first time he used a tranq gun was on a cow elk that he accidently hit in the vitals and the dart double lunged her.

That happened on my friends ranch. They were actually taking moose from their place to transplant them to other areas.

Just perusing ON-X will reveal many owners as state of Colorado within large tracts of public land.

There are even tracts of private land that the state holds easements to access the stateholdings, whereby only state agents can access these so-called indemnity lands. I do know BHA is leading an effort to have the state grant access to hunters/anglers to these lands (no need to flame me on BHA, just providing useful info). Not sure how this will play out,since they were not bought with CPW or GOCO funds.

Since this was a state mandated effort, with specific rules directed by a ballot initiative, and the fact that the feds never recommended release in Colorado, it had to be done soley under state regs, dates, and areas. The USFWS was just used as a consulting agency.

That's the was it was explained to me by a state biologist. That's my recollection of the conversation.

It was done bass ackwards in Colorado compared to the other releases, because the residents of those other states would never approve such a brainless thing like a wolf introduction.

Had this been done in a different political era, the USFWS would have either not approved a release in Colorado or challenged it in Court

Nerd #1 says “um …like…. Denver…. we have a problem here.” The nerd then looks to his right at his counterpart from Boulder, then at the red push button phone (paid for by hunters dollars) to the side of him. With heart pounding, trembling, he reluctantly says to nerd #2 (whose face is heavily pierced) “get me the governor”.........

Nerd #2 picks the phone up, punches in the ultra secure password into the phone #fckttrump24 (tones for each button pushed slowly) and lets the phone connect........ A voice on the line says "authentication code please" Julian says '#fcktrump24, #fcktrump24'...... "Connecting"......

Seconds pass...... the nerd hears shuffling on the other end of the line. It sounds like screaming between two men, they're arguing. "Hello" the man says...... “Um.....is this Mr. Pollis?"......... 'No, this is his wife, who is this?'......... "Hello sir" and like nails down a chalkboard the conversation stops......... 'Sir!!!!!!!!!! don't you ever say sir to me again, who is this?'.......... "This is Julian, one of the first responders for the 2024 wolf introduction hotline vetted by Gov Pollis.".........

Nerd #2 then hears more screaming between two men......... 'I told you to hire a woman, you hired a guy? Where were you those two nights when I tried calling'......... Seconds pass...... Marlon says, "Julian what's the problem?' Ma'am, I just wanted to inform you that all the wolves we released this week are heading straight to Wyoming, and there is nothing we can do!"............

Julian then pulls the phone away from his ear as the best 4 letter word in the English language (starts with an "F" and ends with a "K") is repeated over, and over again......

'Julian' "yes sir, I mean ma'am" 'dial 911 right now, I will activate the National Guard, and have choppers inbound with soldiers equipped with night vision assemble along the northern border to keep our wolves safe (paid for by hunters dollars).......Julian says "Awesome sir, secure just like our southern border".......... 'no son, much better, we have wolves on the line, not votes'

I have a feeling the debacle is just starting, especially with the growing network of wolf watchers reporting into the FB group, and the knowledge that some of these wolves came from livestock-killing packs in OR.

My hope is the people behind this release are held accountable. Hopefully their names are published somewhere….so when the lawsuits start coming they take the brunt of it.

Someones kid gets eaten…and the CO F&G is toast for their stupidity.

Look at Michigan, Wolves wayyyy over the proposed level and wrecking their game populations. The idiots that refer to ‘ Wolf Control’ are idiots. They opened Pandoras box and it will be exremely difficult and very expensive to reign wolves in. ….money there G&F depts don’t have.