Citizen Perspectives on Wolf Reintroduction

Hunter

• For the Love of Elk, Say No to Wolves in Colorado from The Hunting News (2017).
  https://thehuntingnews.com/love-elk-say-no-wolves-colorado/(OP-ED)

Native American (Ute, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Jigarilla Apache)

• Background Information on Wolf Reintroduction in Western Colorado and the Tribal Membership Opinion Survey from The Southern Ute Indian Tribe (2019).
  https://www.southernute-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/05/WolfReintroductionBackgroundv2.pdf (GOV PUB)

Outdoor recreation enthusiast

• Guest opinion: be wary of wolf reintroduction efforts in populous Colorado from the Post Independent (2018).
  https://www.postindependent.com/news/local/guest-opinion-be-wary-of-wolf-reintroduction-efforts-in-populous-colorado/(OP-ED)

Rancher

• Gray wolf reintroduction effort brings up lost livestock compensation concerns from Complete Colorado (2019).
  https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2019/08/19/gray-wolf-reintroduction-effort-brings-up-lost-livestock-compensation-concerns/ (NEWS)

• A rancher’s perspective on wolf reintroduction from The Sopris Sun (2018).
  https://www.soprissun.com/2018/03/10/a-ranchers-perspective-on-wolf-reintroduction/ (OP-ED)

Wildlife biologist

• Wolves at Colorado’s door? from The Daily Sentinel (2018).
  https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/western_colorado/wolves-at-colorado-s-door/article_7063e448-0d67-11e8-a002-10604b9f7e7c.html
• Western Gray Wolf from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/es/grayWolf.php
• Colorado gray wolf sighting confirmed in northern Colorado from The Denver Post (2019).
  https://www.denverpost.com/2019/07/10/gray-wolf-colorado-wyoming/
• Wolves of the Northern Rocky Mountains from The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (2014).
  https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/es/species/mammals/wolf/annualrpt14/index.html

Wildlife manager from Colorado Dept. of Parks and Wildlife

• Colorado to Wolves: Keep Out from TakePart (2016).
  http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/01/14/wolves-not-wanted-colorado-2(NEWS)
• Colorado wildlife officials are reluctant to OK gray wolf reintroduction. So advocates want voters to do it. from The Colorado Sun (2019).
  https://coloradosun.com/2019/04/25/colorado-gray-wolf-reintroduction-ballot-proposal/ (NEWS)
• Who Pays for Wolves? From PERC (2001). https://www.perc.org/2001/12/01/who-pays-for-wolves/ (OP-ED)
• Initiative 107 and the case for returning gray wolves to Colorado from CU Denver News (2019).
  https://news.ucdenver.edu/the-case-for-returning-gray-wolves-to-colorado/ (SPOTLIGHT)

General or Multiple Perspectives

• The Perverse Logic of Wolf Hunts from Exposing the Big Game (2013). https://exposingthebiggame.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-perverse-logic-of-wolf-hunts/ (OP-ED)
• Will Coloradans free wolves on the state’s public lands? from Boulder Weekly (2018). https://www.boulderweekly.com/news/will-coloradans-free-wolves-states-public-lands/ (NEWS)
• Are Large Carnivores Dangerous? From the Wolves and Humans Foundation (2019). https://www.wolvesandhumans.org/articles/are_large_carnivores_dangerous.html (SPOTLIGHT OF AN ISSUE)
• Wolves knocking on Colorado boundaries from The Fence Post (2017).
  https://www.thefencepost.com/news/wolves-knocking-on-colorado-boundaries/ (NEWS)
• Gray wolf reintroduction talk has ranchers seeing red from The Aspen Times (2018).
  https://www.aspentimes.com/trending/gray-wolf-reintroduction-talk-has-ranchers-seeing-red/ (NEWS)
• Reintroducing the gray wolf to Colorado could be put to a popular vote in 2020 from 9News.com (2019). https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/reintroducing-the-gray-wolf-to-colorado-could-be-put-to-a-popular-vote-in-2020/73-8dac6ff3-4ddb-4822-b6ea-24c5d81419e2 (NEWS)
• The Key Arguments for Both Sides of the Wolf Reintroduction Debate in Colorado from OutThere Colorado (2019). https://www.outtherecolorado.com/the-key-arguments-for-both-sides-of-the-wolf-reintroduction-debate-in-colorado/ (SPOTLIGHT ON WOLF DEBATE)
• Colorado wolf reintroduction stokes fears, passions of ranchers, ecologists, sportsmen from Coloradoan (2019). https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2019/10/31/colorado-wolf-reintroduction-ranchers-ecologists-hunters-wolves-debate/2455184001/(NEWS)