Wolf Plan Comment - BY JAN 13!!!

ColoradoV

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Please read and send emails. Once you send your email please bump this thread back up to the top letting every one know that your email has been sent. We need the commissioners to hear hunters opinions by this WEDNESDAY JANURARY 13th.

Thanks and it would be great to see a couple of pages of guys confirm that they sent in emails.


On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at the next meeting of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission, the commissioners will consider a resolution to "oppose wolf reintroduction" in Colorado. I urge you to contact the commission and tell them you DO NOT SUPPORT wolf introduction in Colorado.

The alternatives are shown below. If you hunt, or ever want to hunt big game in CO, this is a HUGE issue. The best alternative for hunters is Alternative 2.

The groups in favor of wolf re-introduction have already sent 3000 emails to the Colorado Parks & Wildlife

Please send your emails to the CPW at

[email protected]

This is an important step in delaying or prohibiting the reintroduction. The pro-wolf people are all over this. We need the help of hunters!

Original version: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission affirms its support of the Wolf Working Group’s recommendations adopted by the Wildlife Commission in May 2005 and hereby opposes any introduction of Mexican or intentional reintroduction of gray wolves in the State of Colorado.

Alternative Version 1: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission affirms its support of the Wolf Working Group’s recommendations adopted by the Wildlife Commission in May 2005, recommends that Mexican wolf recovery efforts be confined to the subspecies’ historic range, and emphasizes the importance of bi-national recovery planning with Mexico.

Alternative Version 2: NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission affirms its support of the Wolf Working Group’s recommendations adopted by the Wildlife Commission in May 2005, opposes the intentional release of any wolves into Colorado, recommends that Mexican wolf recovery efforts be confined to the subspecies’ historic range, and emphasizes the importance of bi- national recovery planning with Mexico.

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Word I got this morning was that no one has really heard anything about it; including RMEF, SCI, NAWSF & MDF members.
 
ColoradoV

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This is real and if you have the email to folks in power in those organizations it would be great if they knew what was going on. I am sure it would help.

You are right the wolf folks come in quiet but they are bragging on their sites that they have already sent in over 3000 emails of wolf re introduction.

Again if you guys have any time to spare send in a email. I sent in one yesterday.
 
ColoradoV

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RMEF just put out a good letter on the subject. I cut and pasted it below for reference.

Thanks for all the emails so far!



January 11, 2016

Mr. Chris Castilian
Chair
Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission
6060 Broadway
Denver, CO 80216


Chairman Castilian and Commissioners:

We understand the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is scheduled to consider a petition on January 13 that would prevent the introduction of wolves in Colorado.

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) supports Alternative Version 2 of this petition including language that opposes the intentional release of any wolves into Colorado. Reintroduction of gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain West has had significant impacts on elk, deer, other wildlife and livestock in many locations. Further, the lessons learned from the Greater Yellowstone wolf reintroduction should be heeded as you consider the long term future of Colorado’s wildlife. Those who promoted the Yellowstone wolf reintroduction, including Defenders of Wildlife, have displayed a substantial lack of good faith in the establishment of recovery goals and wolf management tools.

The strategy of the pro-wolf supporters is nothing short of “let’s agree to just about anything to get our foot in the door first; then we will do whatever is necessary to further our agenda.” Those supporting wolf reintroductions will use the federal courts and judges as opposed to subscribing to empirical science. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) will lose the ability to manage as you see fit and mandated by federal lawsuits. CPW need only to talk with the state wildlife agencies of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan to determine what impacts a reintroduced wolf species will bring to Colorado, including financial impacts which will reach into the millions.

Further, one only needs to look at the wolf populations in the Great Lakes region and take inventory of where the deer populations as well as elk populations have suffered dramatically due predation. Again, the same pro-wolf groups that now desire wolves introduced into Colorado continue to tie up wolf management in the Great Lakes states in federal courts as wolf numbers expand and deer and elk decrease. The lessons CPW can draw from both the Yellowstone region and the Great Lakes states illustrate that wolf populations where there are significant ungulates will have a significant effect on your overall wildlife management systems.

Mexican gray wolves are another matter. The home range of this species did not historically include Colorado. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project does not include Colorado in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area. That area is limited to Arizona and New Mexico.

Please consider these reasons for supporting Alternative Version 2 of this petition.
There is evidence gray wolves have already re-established populations in Colorado. Introduction of a separate species of wolf could create hybridized wolves.
Introduction of Mexican wolves would certainly have a detrimental impact on elk, deer, other wildlife and livestock—all factors critically important to Colorado’s landscape, recreational value and economy.
Introduction of Mexican wolves could impact the balance in Colorado that currently exists among existing predators and prey. Judging from our experience in other western states, wolves will impact wildlife populations, distribution and behavior—often in negative and undesirable ways.
Please understand our position on this issue does not come without serious consideration of the scientific understanding of wolves, wolf interactions with other species and wolf management. In fact, we have invested more than $725,000 in grants to leading universities, state and federal wildlife conservation agencies and tribal agencies for independent research on this subject.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important issue.

Sincerely,

M. David Allen
President & CEO
 
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Is there anyway we can move this thread to the general hunting thread at the top of the home page? The more people that e-mail the CPW the better.
 
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I just saw on another site that the antis are trying to stop lion hunting in Colorado also!! Meeting tomorrow night in Aspen!! If anyone is interested I could get more info!
 
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