US EditionEdward: Barking Back at Anti-Wolf Screed
PITKIN COUNTY, COLORADO, JUL 7 – The Holy Cross Cattlemen's Association seeks permit after 15 confirmed livestock losses in July despite prior wolf removal efforts by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
- The Copper Creek wolf pack, formed in 2024 after reintroduction efforts began in 2023, has been linked to livestock killings in Pitkin County this summer.
- The pack's depredation incidents, including confirmed attacks between May and July, led Colorado Parks and Wildlife to lethally remove one yearling wolf believed solely responsible for some killings.
- Despite ongoing livestock losses, CPW officials, including director Jeff Davis, have defended the reintroduction program and delayed removal of the entire pack, prompting ranchers and cattlemen associations to demand stronger action.
- Critics urged using a chronic depredation permit to allow lethal control or relocation, noting that pups learn damaging behavior from older wolves and warning that unresolved conflicts will worsen.
- The controversy has escalated tension between wildlife managers and ranchers, leading to a special CPW commission meeting but no official policy changes, highlighting ongoing challenges in balancing wolf conservation with livestock protection.
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Edward: Barking back at anti-wolf screed
Regarding Tony Vagneur’s latest anti-wolf screed, I’m calling foul. This would be just another summer raising livestock amidst the full suite of native carnivores, had it not been for the livestock industry and the federal government conspiring to eradicate wolves from the lower 48 states. Apparently, Vagneur presumes that ranchers have some unalienable right to run a business without risk, or at least without this risk. Geesh! Nobody said this …
After several dead sheep in an alpine area, the state of Tyrol issued a further regulation for a wolf. This applies for the next eight weeks, the local hunters are alarmed. On Sunday, a total of five dead sheep were found in the alpine area in the municipality of Ellbogen (Birkirke Innsbruck-Land). In addition, it was reported that four more sheep are shut down. Monday evening another dead sheep was found.Samples are to bring final certaintyAfte…
The Fort Morgan Times
Colorado’s Copper Creek wolf pack — with new pups in tow — is under scrutiny again after cattle killings
Colorado’s first wolf pack since the species’ reintroduction in 2023 is once again under intense scrutiny after a series of cattle depredations in the Roaring Fork Valley. Cattle killings in Pitkin County this summer have spurred calls in recent weeks to remove the entire Copper Creek pack — comprising two adults, three yearlings and an unknown number of pups born this year — as a threat. Cattle killings connected to the pack already prompted Co…
Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado PoliticsHoly Cross cattlemen asks for permit to kill Copper Creek wolves
The Holy Cross Cattlemen's Association on Saturday asked Colorado Parks and Wildlife to issue a "chronic depredation" permit for the Copper Creek wolf pack that has been killing livestock in Pitkin County over the past two months.
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Potential Livestock Killers Tracked in Neighboring Counties Trevor Phipps Ever since wolves have entered Colorado due to a successful ballot measure that was narrowly approved statewide, controversy has ignited, and tensions have escalated between state wildlife officials and area ranchers and property owners. Since the beginning of the wolf reintroduction initiative, ranchers have reported numerous […]
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