Many of Colorado's Wolves Shift East—Including Into Watersheds Near Boulder, New Map Shows
Colorado Parks and Wildlife monitors 21 collared gray wolves and reports a minimum of 29 wolves statewide, including at least 10 pups born this spring across four packs.
- On Wednesday, Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a map showing watersheds where collared gray wolves traveled between July 22 and Aug. 26, including near Gilpin, Clear Creek and Boulder counties.
- CPW reported it is monitoring 21 adult or yearling collared wolves while counting pups born this spring to the state's four packs, including at least six in One Ear Pack, Jackson County, and four in King Mountain Pack, Routt County.
- CPW reported that an uncollared wolf linked to livestock killings in Rio Blanco County was connected to four attacks between July 20 and Aug. 16, prompting a suspended kill attempt under the chronic depredation policy.
- Since March 31, 2025, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed six wolf deaths and births, leaving a minimum count of 29 wolves; a female wolf brought from Oregon died in Wyoming last month, marking the ninth death.
- Parks and Wildlife said the next wolf release will occur in the southern release zone, and the Copper Creek Pack, which had five pups in 2024, had a new den this spring after mating with a male wolf from British Columbia.
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Colorado wolves move into Front Range watersheds
A gif shows the difference between July’s wolf activity map and August’s wolf activity map. Colorado Parks and Wildlife/Courtesy Photos Colorado’s collared gray wolves are primarily sticking to Western Slope watersheds, with some exploration toward the east. In the latest map from Colorado Parks and Wildlife — which shows the watersheds where the state’s collared gray wolves were located between July 22 and Aug. 26 — wolves checked out northw…

Wolf movement continues across Western Colorado and some Front Range watersheds in new map
Colorado’s collared gray wolves are primarily sticking to Western Slope watersheds, with some exploration toward the east. In the latest map from Colorado Parks and Wildlife — which shows the watersheds where the state’s collared gray wolves were located between July 22 and Aug. 26 — wolves checked out northwest areas in Routt, Jackson, Rio Blanco, Grand, Summit, Eagle, Lake and Pitkin counties. Similar to activity in the past few months, th…

Many of Colorado’s wolves shift east — including into watersheds near Boulder, new map shows
Many of the collared wolves roaming Colorado shifted east over the last month, according to a new map of their locations released Wednesday. To the northwest, wolves that were present last month in central Moffat and Rio Blanco counties moved east, as did wolves to the south that were roaming northeast of Durango, according to the monthly map released by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Those wolves instead traveled closer to Pagosa Springs and in w…
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