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  • Can Colorado Sustain Wolf Recovery?

    George Wuerthner

    Wolves successfully live in states or parts of other countries with far greater human populations than Colorado. Photo George Wuerthner  A recent NPR radio story titled: “Is Colorado Too Crowded To Support Wolves” suggested that with 6 million residents, there wasn’t enough habitat to sustain wolves. I’ve been involved with wolf restoration since the 1980s,…

  • Livestock Grazing Impacts To Canyon of the Ancients National Monument

    George Wuerthner

    Lowery Ruins, part of the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. Photo George Wuerthner  Livestock grazing threatens the integrity of Colorado’s Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. Located in SW Colorado near Cortez,  President Clinton established the 176,000 acre Monument in 2000 to protect one of the highest concentrations of archeological sites in the West…

  • Cattle frozen in a USFS cabin at 11,000 feet in Colorado. What to do? Explosives?

    Ken Cole

    In December 2012, we added an update to the story below. The last story is July 4, 2012. A Forest Service cabin near a wilderness hot spring is filled with frozen dead cattle and the Forest Service doesn’t know quite what to do. Worried that the cattle carcasses will pollute the hot springs the Forest…

  • Colorado bans hunting of denned bears

    Ralph Maughan

    Outrage from killing 703-pound denned bear sparks new regulation- Last November Richard Kendall of Craig shot a black bear that was a state record, but the bear was in its den. A lot of folks didn’t like they way he got the record bear. As a result, the Colorado Wildlife Commission unanimously approved a new…

  • Colorado Crimes: Bighorn sheep poacher wanted, $1,000 reward

    Ralph Maughan

    $1000 for poacher in the Poudre Canyon- That is near Ft. Collins, CO. Story: Colorado Crimes: Bighorn sheep poacher wanted, $1,000 reward. By Kiernan Maletsky. The Latest Word I put this story up after a request from a blog reader near the area.

  • 2009 Colorado dead wolf was killed by poison . . . the notorious 1080

    Ralph Maughan

    Colorless, odorless, tasteless, violent poison felled Montana wolf that migrated to Colorado- Note that the story below is a much longer replacement for the original story I posted. Wildlife investigators: Poison killed Colorado wolf. By Catherine Tsai. Associated Press in the Denver Post.

  • Colorado outfitter fined $40,000

    Ralph Maughan

    Veteran guide gets a big fine for illegal deer hunting with clients- Outfitter fined nearly $40,000 for illegal hunting. By The Denver Post. Does anyone have much knowledge of the “Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact” mentioned in the article?

  • Reintroductions have moose thriving on lofty Grand Mesa in Colorado

    Ralph Maughan

    Great news!  Moose were already spreading southward, but they got an assist- Moose on the rise in Colorado, Summit County. Colorado’s moose populations are growing, thanks to sky-high reintroduction operations. By Julie Sutor. Summit Daily news

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Edward Abbey

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Jim Fowler

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