Colorado Parks and Wildlife releases Colorado Gray Wolf Annual Report for biological year 2024-2025
Luke Perkins
Denver—Colorado Parks and Wildlife has published its second annual report that documents the status of gray wolves, wolf management, wolf monitoring, research related to wolves, and education and outreach in Colorado during the biological year April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. Please note that events that have happened since March 31 will be included in next year’s annual report. Colorado Gray Wolf Annual Report: April 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025
Wolf restoration is a multi-year effort, intending to release 10-15 wolves per year for 3 - 5 years. Releases will occur in locations west of the Continental Divide, with a 60-mile buffer from Tribal lands to the south and the northern and western borders of the state. Upon completing this 3- to 5-year effort, CPW will continue to monitor the wolf population and supplement the restoration effort with additional releases if necessary.
The report covers how wolf restoration in 2024-2025 was conducted in three interrelated phases: capture, translocation, and release. It outlines how CPW monitors the wolves and the agency’s major efforts in mitigating wolf-livestock conflict. General information on the biological and ecological research topics that CPW is studying is also outlined.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is an enterprise agency, relying primarily on license sales, state parks fees and registration fees to support its operations, including: 43 state parks and more than 350 wildlife areas covering approximately 900,000 acres, management of fishing and hunting, wildlife watching, camping, motorized and non-motorized trails, boating and outdoor education. CPW's work contributes approximately $6 billion in total economic impact annually throughout Colorado.
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