Will Congress intervene to stop wolf reintro?

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U.S. Fish & Wildlife threatens to terminate Colorado’s authority to manage wolves

With no apparent plan in place to bring in more wolves to Colorado for 2026, Colorado Parks and Wildlife may have an even bigger problem. A Dec. 18 letter from Brian Nesvik, director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), threatens to terminate the state’s authority to manage wolves unless...

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Feds looking to terminate state's authority to manage wolves unless certain conditions are met. If the conditions aren't met the USFWS will take control of the program.

Termination of the agreement would result in the “immediate revocation of all CPW authority over gray wolves in its jurisdiction,” and that USFWS would assume all gray wolf management activities, “including relocation and lethal removal,” as determined to be necessary, the federal official said.

If my quick review and take on this is right, that captured depredating wolves being relocated rather than killed is the reason for the action...and that is factual (false claims re: individual wolves arent in play and legit verified depredation has been documented), then this seems like a reasonable action.

Wolf recovery and acceptance has to come with the expectation that there is some relief for producers.

I understand Trumps DOGE cuts have hurt our efforts recently, but here federal staff routinely kill dozens of depredating wolves each year and have for decades. The process for documenting wolf (versus other predator) involvement works well and greatly helps acceptance with most people who have problems.