Opinion | The final Colorado wolf restoration plan must reflect the voters’ intention to establish and maintain a self-sustaining population of wolves. To achieve this goal, loopholes that would allow for the unnecessary killing of wolves must be removed.
As required by law, the agency has included programs to help ranchers reduce conflicts with cattle and sheep and offered a generous compensation program in the few instances when predation does occur., based on recommendations from panels of wolf scientists and stakeholders, protects our western heritage, including livestock ranching, while restoring wolves to their native landscape.
First and foremost, the final Colorado wolf restoration plan must reflect the voters’ intention to establish and maintain a self-sustaining population of wolves. Nor is facilitating the sale of elk and deer licenses a legitimate reason to kill wolves. Ironically, doing so will promote the spread of disease in those same elk and deer populations and deprive us of a key tool in ensuring that our ecosystems are healthy enough to withstand climate change and other threats like habitat fragmentation.
Finally, all references to the recreational hunting of wolves should be removed, as recreational hunting of wolves directly contradicts Colorado voters’ intent to restore wolves as a “non-game species” when they approved Proposition 114 in 2020.
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