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The unpopular program with all the dead wolves is also over budget according to recent reports.
From Complete Colorado earlier this month:
“The cost of Colorado’s gray wolf introduction program has already roughly doubled from the original price tag offered up to help sell the plan, according to the state’s wildlife agency. In 2020, voters narrowly approved a plan to forcibly introduce gray wolves into western Colorado. At the time, they were told that it would cost approximately $800,000 annually, beginning with fiscal year 2023-2024 to both implement the program and reimburse farmers and ranchers for livestock lost to depredation. However, according Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), that amount spent on the program over the last two years was actually $3 million. The numbers came to light during an interim legislative committee hearing on Monday, where lawmakers got an earful on the rocky rollout of the wolf importation plan from ranchers, agricultural groups, as well as fellow elected officials.”
Elections are an unverifiable black box, so we reject the idea that voters approved this. Regardless, the program has been a complete failure and financial boondoggle.
Last week, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission convened. According to Colorado Politics:
“The recent death of the fifth British Columbia wolf, out of 15 brought to Colorado, is also raising questions about the success of the program. The wolf management plan calls for an evaluation of the ‘short-term success of wolf reintroduction efforts,’ and among the criteria is a survival rate of less than 70%, which would initiate a protocol review. State wildlife director Jeff Davis noted that, with the death of the fifth wolf, the survival rate, at 67%, has now dropped below the 70% trigger.”
What are we doing Colorado? Consider what one commissioner said to the others:
“It’s been quite ugly,” Jacober told fellow commissioners. “We went against our management plan, captured the wolves, went further against the management plan, re-released the wolves, and here we are today,” he said. “We need to be accountable for a mistake that we’ve made by putting this depredating pack back on the landscape, and make a quick, fast discussion about how to move forward with clearly, unfortunately, a bad pack of animals. And I think that if we don’t deal with a chronic depredating pack, it’s just going to continue to kind of rub on all of us and on the program and make it unsuccessful.”
Indeed.
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