Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Collared Gray Wolf Activity Map will help inform the public, recreationists and livestock producers on where wolves have been in the past month. There are now 29 gray wolves in Colorado. As always, this number can change at any time if other wolves migrate to Colorado from other states.

Between December 18 - 21, 2023, Colorado Parks and Wildlife experts captured 10 gray wolves in Oregon and released them onto public land in Summit and Grand counties in a historic effort to create a permanent, self-sustaining wolf population and fulfill a voter approved initiative to re-establish gray wolves in Colorado.

Wolves were reintroduced in the northern Rocky Mountains in the 1990s and since at least 2014, solitary wolves have entered Colorado. A resident group in northwestern Colorado was confirmed in early 2020. In June 2021, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) reported that the first litter of wolf pups had been born in the state since the 1940s.

Jan 22, 2025 · The release marked the first time the agency released wolves south of I-70. In December of 2023, the state's first releases of 10 wolves captured in Oregon were conducted in Grand and Summit ...

CPW’s new Map Indicating Current Collared Wolf Activity in Colorado. This map depicts watersheds where collared wolves in Colorado have been for the last 30 days or so. A watershed is a geographic unit that drains water into a specific waterbody.

Jan 21, 2025 · Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff did not identify which of the British Columbia wolves were released north or south of I-70 or if they were released on private or state-owned land, the only two ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Courtesy Colorado Parks and Wildlife State wildlife officials open a cage and release a gray wolf on Dec. 18, 2023 as part of a voter-approved measure that requires the predator’s reintroduction.

Jan 24, 2024 · New data from GPS collars show Colorado's 12 gray wolves traveled throughout a 4,400 square-mile region from Dec. 18, 2023, to Jan. 22, 2024. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say...

Nov 7, 2023 · As the result of a statewide voter-led initiative passed in November 2020, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a rule to establish an experimental population of gray wolves in Colorado under section 10 (j) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in support of the state of Colorado’s voter-mandated gray wolf reintroduction program.

Jan 19, 2025 · The first 10 wolves to be released in Colorado were released into Grand and Summit counties. When were the wolves released? The wolves from British Columbia were released the evenings of Jan. 12 ...