Senate Bill 23-256, a bill to prohibit the reintroduction of gray wolves until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has designated Colorado gray wolves as an experimental population. This important legislation will be heard tomorrow, April 27, at 9 a.m. on the House floor (not the Appropriations Committee as previously reported).
As we’ve said, it is critical that sportsmen reach out to their state representatives and ask them to support this bill as it is critical to the future management of wolves in the state.
Designation as an experimental population allows the state greater management flexibility, which will be extremely important as newly established wolf packs interact with the landscape. Human-wolf conflicts will increase, livestock predation will rise, and ungulate species like elk and deer will be impacted. If wolves are reintroduced before FWS designates the population as experimental, the options for state wildlife managers will be extremely limited.
Please use our Take Action button below to email your state Representative urging them to SUPPORT SB 23- 256 when it comes before them for consideration.
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