Coming from a sportsman that has lived in Wyoming and Idaho where wolves have all but destroyed wildlife populations and a person that hunts Utah and Colorado every year, this is a terrible idea. Colorado has been taken hostage by outside influences mainly from CA. They destroyed their state and are hell-bent on destroying Colorado as well. Join this fight. Once they win, Colorado hunting will never be the same and neighboring states like Utah will see wolves in their mountains as they know no boundaries.
They like to use the myth of wolves only take out the sick and weak. Maybe in their liberal utopia but in real life wolves take out everything and anything including livestock and domesticated pets in addition to the valued wildlife of the state. We already have predators to take out the weak and sick (and healthy and strong) as well as hard winters.
Colorado has the largest elk herd in the world. Plan on those numbers plummeting fast. A couple hundred wolves, as they plan, will multiply exponentially and these killing machines must eat. However, they often don’t just kill what they eat but also kill just to kill. Numerous stories of smaller herds laying out in a snow-covered flat dead with nothing but wolf tracks left in the snow have come from other states. Colorado will join that list.
Proponents for wolf introduction want to hear the “majestic howl” and view the “beautiful species” from afar. Most don’t spend but a summer camping on the weekends in the forests of Colorado. They don’t deal with the effects of wolves on a daily basis like sportsmen, outfitters, ranchers, and many citizens in rural areas. This will affect businesses that rely on income that hunting produces. Let’s face it. The herd numbers of deer, elk, sheep, moose will drop. Fewer numbers of big game animals will equal hunter frustration and fewer opportunities that will, in turn, force these hunters to find other states to hunt and game producing revenue will decrease. Introduction of wolves negatively affect most everyone not living in Aspen, Vail, or the Front Range.
I can’t imagine what the many high/top preference point hunters will face when they finally draw the long-awaited tag only to quickly find out the herds have been reduced and the big bulls/bucks are fewer and far between. A few years ago, a very hard winter took its toll on the Gunnison deer herd (as well as others around the state) and the units have been slow to recover. Add wolves to that equation and herds could realistically become decimated with no hopes of returning. I am positive those point holders that will eventually draw never thought that they would also be competing with another apex predator but that could become reality and it will affect all big game species/herds throughout the state and negatively affect ALL resident and nonresident hunters regardless of how many points he/she has. This is a fight worth fighting.
Luckily, I live in a state that allows me to hunt wolves. That may happen in Colorado eventually as well. However, that is many years down the road and many, many animals taken from a herd in the process. Idaho isn’t the same since wolves came a knockin’ and I fear that Colorado will NEVER be the same if the Canadian Wolf is introduced into the state. www.stopthewolf.org
10 year minimum loss of hunting privileges, loss of all confiscated hunting equipment, 300 hours of wildlife community service, and must pay all $53,000 in the 10 year period plus interest or loss of hunting privileges indefinitely in all states under the Wildlife Violator Compact.
6 years ago
Colorado wolf ballot may have enough supportComing from a sportsman that has lived in Wyoming and Idaho where wolves have all but destroyed wildlife populations and a person that hunts Utah and Colorado every year, this is a terrible idea. Colorado has been taken hostage by outside influences mainly from CA. They destroyed their state and are hell-bent on destroying Colorado as well. Join this fight. Once they win, Colorado hunting will never be the same and neighboring states like Utah will see wolves in their mountains as they know no boundaries.
They like to use the myth of wolves only take out the sick and weak. Maybe in their liberal utopia but in real life wolves take out everything and anything including livestock and domesticated pets in addition to the valued wildlife of the state. We already have predators to take out the weak and sick (and healthy and strong) as well as hard winters.
Colorado has the largest elk herd in the world. Plan on those numbers plummeting fast. A couple hundred wolves, as they plan, will multiply exponentially and these killing machines must eat. However, they often don’t just kill what they eat but also kill just to kill. Numerous stories of smaller herds laying out in a snow-covered flat dead with nothing but wolf tracks left in the snow have come from other states. Colorado will join that list.
Proponents for wolf introduction want to hear the “majestic howl” and view the “beautiful species” from afar. Most don’t spend but a summer camping on the weekends in the forests of Colorado. They don’t deal with the effects of wolves on a daily basis like sportsmen, outfitters, ranchers, and many citizens in rural areas. This will affect businesses that rely on income that hunting produces. Let’s face it. The herd numbers of deer, elk, sheep, moose will drop. Fewer numbers of big game animals will equal hunter frustration and fewer opportunities that will, in turn, force these hunters to find other states to hunt and game producing revenue will decrease. Introduction of wolves negatively affect most everyone not living in Aspen, Vail, or the Front Range.
I can’t imagine what the many high/top preference point hunters will face when they finally draw the long-awaited tag only to quickly find out the herds have been reduced and the big bulls/bucks are fewer and far between. A few years ago, a very hard winter took its toll on the Gunnison deer herd (as well as others around the state) and the units have been slow to recover. Add wolves to that equation and herds could realistically become decimated with no hopes of returning. I am positive those point holders that will eventually draw never thought that they would also be competing with another apex predator but that could become reality and it will affect all big game species/herds throughout the state and negatively affect ALL resident and nonresident hunters regardless of how many points he/she has. This is a fight worth fighting.
Luckily, I live in a state that allows me to hunt wolves. That may happen in Colorado eventually as well. However, that is many years down the road and many, many animals taken from a herd in the process. Idaho isn’t the same since wolves came a knockin’ and I fear that Colorado will NEVER be the same if the Canadian Wolf is introduced into the state. www.stopthewolf.org
6 years ago
Texas poacher fined $53,000 for killing Colorado elk10 year minimum loss of hunting privileges, loss of all confiscated hunting equipment, 300 hours of wildlife community service, and must pay all $53,000 in the 10 year period plus interest or loss of hunting privileges indefinitely in all states under the Wildlife Violator Compact.