Colorado announces agreement with Washington state tribes to obtain more wolves

Colorado announces agreement with Washington state tribes to obtain more wolves.

 Colorado's wildlife official's on Friday announced reaching an agreement with indigenous tribes in Washington state to capture 10  to 15 wolves that to be released in Colorado at the end of the year. The Confiderated Tribes of the colville Reservation will allow Colorado parks and wildlife, part of the state's Department of Natural Resources to catch wolves on tribal lands from December 2024 through March 2025, The prime capture season.

"We are grateful to the confederated Tribes of the Colville of the Reservation for working with our agency on this critical next step in reintroducing gray wolves in the state ," said CPW to continue to meet our unanimously adopted Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan goal of translocating 10-15 gray wolves per capture season for a total of 30-50 wolves."

Jarred Micheal Erickson, Chairman of the Confederal Tribes of the Colville Reservation, added that " The Colville people strongly believe in preserving our environment, including its fish and animals." 

" We are thrilled that our Restoration efforts on our own lands have progressed far enough that we can share some of these magnificent creatures with the citizens of Colorado," Erickson said. tribal representatives will provide guidence to Colorado on target pack, avoiding packs with known active chronic depredation behaviour, wildlife officials claims in a news release Friday.

In contrast, several of the wolves that the Polis administration released in Colorado last month came from packs with histories of killing livestock. CPW, in its wolf restoration plan, had pledged not to bring in wolves with depredation histories, but the Fence Post's Rachel Gabel, who is also a columnist for Colorado Politics, reported the first five wolves from Oregon came from the Five Points Pack, which injured one calf and killed another in in July of 2023.First gentleman Marlon Reis, Gov. Jared Polis' spouse, later criticized Gabel, attacking her journalism and saying, "Never trust anything Rachel Gabel writes.” Reis posted those comments on Facebook but took them down later. He did not refute her report.