Colorado gets final go-ahead to kill wolves that kill livestock

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized its 10(j) rule under the Endangered Species Act, designating gray wolves in Colorado as experimental, allowing the predator to be legally killed under certain circumstances.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to release wolves it is obtaining from Oregon to launch its reintroduction program by mid-December, the agency said previously.

The 10(j) ruling allows for more flexibility in managing wolves throughout Colorado, including the option to kill the predators in situations where wolves are chronically depredating livestock or are caught in the act of killing livestock. The ruling accompanied wolf reintroductions in Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s...more