04-07-2020, 07:02 AM
So i was sent this article and thought i would share it.
The carefully constructed language of a Colorado 2020 ballot initiative leads the uninformed reader to believe that wolves are extinct in Colorado…they are not. Colorado Parks & Wildlife has confirmed sightings of wolves that have migrated into Colorado across public hunting lands and ranches for sale.
A proposed 2020 ballot measure touted by wolf activists is an attempt to force the release of gray wolves in Colorado. The carefully constructed language of the initiative leads the uninformed reader to believe that wolves are extinct in Colorado and the wolves can’t get here on their own. As wolf packs continue to increase in numbers and expand their range from adjacent areas, wolves will naturally colonize Colorado on their own.
According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
“It is not uncommon for wolf territories to be as large as 50 square miles but they may even extend up to 1,000 square miles in areas where prey is scarce. Wolves often cover large areas to hunt, traveling as far as 30 miles a day. Although they trot along at 5 m.p.h., wolves can attain speeds as high as 40 m.p.h. Most wolves disperse from the pack they were born into by age three. Dispersing wolves have traveled as far as 600 miles.”
With the initial release of 31 wolves in Yellowstone National Park and 35 wolves released in central Idaho, wolves rapidly colonized surrounding areas. By 2015 the Northern Rocky Mountain wolf population was estimated to be in excess of 1,700 wolves. From this initial release, wolves have migrated into Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, and now into Colorado.
While the ballot initiative gives a token acknowledgement of wolf depredation of livestock which support Colorado ranches and the long heritage of owning a ranch in Colorado, it totally ignores the devastating impacts to our big game herds and impact on Colorado hunting properties.
History shows that wolves decimate their prey base of elk, moose, and deer. On Colorado hunting land these are popular species among local land owners and out of state hunters.
The carefully constructed language of a Colorado 2020 ballot initiative leads the uninformed reader to believe that wolves are extinct in Colorado…they are not. Colorado Parks & Wildlife has confirmed sightings of wolves that have migrated into Colorado across public hunting lands and ranches for sale.
A proposed 2020 ballot measure touted by wolf activists is an attempt to force the release of gray wolves in Colorado. The carefully constructed language of the initiative leads the uninformed reader to believe that wolves are extinct in Colorado and the wolves can’t get here on their own. As wolf packs continue to increase in numbers and expand their range from adjacent areas, wolves will naturally colonize Colorado on their own.
According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
“It is not uncommon for wolf territories to be as large as 50 square miles but they may even extend up to 1,000 square miles in areas where prey is scarce. Wolves often cover large areas to hunt, traveling as far as 30 miles a day. Although they trot along at 5 m.p.h., wolves can attain speeds as high as 40 m.p.h. Most wolves disperse from the pack they were born into by age three. Dispersing wolves have traveled as far as 600 miles.”
With the initial release of 31 wolves in Yellowstone National Park and 35 wolves released in central Idaho, wolves rapidly colonized surrounding areas. By 2015 the Northern Rocky Mountain wolf population was estimated to be in excess of 1,700 wolves. From this initial release, wolves have migrated into Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, and now into Colorado.
While the ballot initiative gives a token acknowledgement of wolf depredation of livestock which support Colorado ranches and the long heritage of owning a ranch in Colorado, it totally ignores the devastating impacts to our big game herds and impact on Colorado hunting properties.
History shows that wolves decimate their prey base of elk, moose, and deer. On Colorado hunting land these are popular species among local land owners and out of state hunters.
Let God lead the way!
Give a man a fish he eats for one day, teach him to fish he eats forever!
Give a man a fish he eats for one day, teach him to fish he eats forever!
