Battle of Wolves Caves Rancer against the will of the people in Colorado

Note the editor: This story is the first in a row about the re -introduction of a wolf in Colorado.

Grand County, Colorado – The snow spinning in the air while a small pile of viewer gathered on a patch of state land in Grand County, Coloradowaiting for the wolves to arrive. Finally, after the sun was gone behind the mountains, wildlife officials performed crates.

Warm, polluted, wild scent slipped out of aluminum boxes.

“We could feel it [the] The energy of the wolves, predicting something to change, “recalled Rob Edward, co -founder of the Rocky Mountain Wolf project.

The door opened. The spectators were waiting. Finally, the gray wolves peeked out of the crate. They raised their paws and then excluded, limiting the hills approximately 1.000 miles from their original home in East Oregon.

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The surreal, inspiring form of gray wolves that were once again free in Colorado, the result is almost 30 years of the terrifying work of Edward and other conservators.

But Wolves first confirmed the killing of livestock just months later to cause an intense battle between the primarily urban supporters of Apex pre -Predators rancer who earn a life in the Western Padini Colorado.

“That destroyed our lives,” Rancher Conway Farrell said. “They just left us here to just kill these things.”

The war of the US government against wolves

The wolves wandered North America once, holding the population of prerection animals like deer and bad.

At that time, in the 1800s, European immigrants were swallowed to the west, decimating most of the loot of wolves. The hunting and policy of eradicating the US government had to harm the Indian tribes almost erased the bison until the end of the century. In Colorado the badges were taken to Ivica extinction In the early 1900s.

While the cattle and sheep replaced their natural prey, the wolves began to eat livestock, which encouraged the campaign of eradication sponsored by the government. The men went to the west holding cyanide and traps. They glued the meat with Strychnone to poison the hungry wolves and dug the puppies out of the crowd and beat them to the shovel, Edward said.

“It was an effort at the war level,” Edward said. “At that time, consumption was compared to what we spent on arming our army.”

It has been almost three decades, but by the mid-1940s the last wolf Colorada was killed.

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Ranchers and Stonding Association “did not understand the consequences” that the move would have in the environment, Edward said. By the late 1900s, deer and bad populations exploded. Without a natural predator, they overpaid the country, he said, and pointed to the success of the wolves in Yellowstone in the return of biodiversity.

“We want wolves here because we know the environmental importance of the species. We want them to do what they do best. Just like a fire when it is properly managed,” Edward said. “When we suppress these natural processes, it is when we get into problems.”

The fourth generation Rancher Tim Ritschard sees it differently.

“[Wolves] He is excreted for a reason, and now we bring them back to the landscape, but our population is probably four times, five times more than 1940, “Ritschard said.” It’s just crazy. “

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The year of work by Edward and colleague of conservators paid off in November 2020. Proposal 114, which ordered that parks and wild animals in Colorado (CPW) develop a plan to re -introduce wolves.

The proposal was adopted with only 50.9% of the vote.

“Yes, it was a narrow margin. But the fact is that Wolves won,” Edward said.

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But most voters at Grand County, where the first gray wolves would eventually release, have opposed the proposal. Several ranchers Fox News Digital He spoke with a sense of the shocked outcome of the choice and said that they wanted more messengers in their opposition.

“None of us thought it would be going,” Conway Farrel said. “We slept at the wheel.”

The proposal 114 term is that the CPW “takes the necessary steps to begin re -introduction” Wolves until December 31, 2023. The 261-page CPW plan shows the goal of the introduction of 30-50 wolves into the country for three to five years, then monitoring, and then oversees wolves to see if their population will self-sustain.

The first five sets of paws hit the ground in Grand County on December 18, 2023. Five more wolves were published in the coming days, without announcement before and in undiscovered locations. Participants in the second edition are forbidden to photograph.

Collar data showed that wolves were scattered, but in the end, two were found and “set up a trade”, producing puppies, Edward said.

“Shortly thereafter, there was a cattle killed by that pair of wolves,” he said.

On April 2, 2024, the rancher found the body of the calf lie in spring snow, surrounded by wolves. It was the first confirmed murder.

Each day, since then, the GRAND MERRIT LINKE District Commissioner says he has heard some complaints on the wolves.

“I don’t think people understand the reality of what is actually happening here, and the wolf sees as a big, fluffy, friendly creature running both wild and freely through the forest, just like a great dog,” he said. “There is a misconception about what is really the reality of what happens to this whole project.”

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As more cattle, sheep and other livestocks became prey to the new inhabitants of Colorado, an exit was built, culminating in a request of agricultural groups to press the break on further editions.

And four years after the elections that have traveled the way to re -introduce Wolf, they hope that the re -election of President Donald Trump 2024 will turn the tide to their advantage.