Colorado voters decide to reintroduce gray wolves

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Coloradans have voted to reintroduce wolves, which were hunted and trapped to extinction in the 1940s, to the state by 2023.

The proposition squeaked by with 50.4% of the total votes as of Thursday night. This is the first time American voters have ever weighed in on reintroducing a wildlife species, as that decision is usually left up to a state’s team of wildlife biologists.

Yellowstone national park reintroduced gray wolves to the park in 1995, and Washburn looks to it as a living laboratory and model for Colorado’s reintroduction plans. The return of the region’s apex predators set off a cascade of natural events that ultimately restored Yellowstone’s “ecological integrity”, says Washburn, and the reintroduction is hailed as one of the world’s greatest rewilding stories.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife department will lead the effort to establish a sustainable population of the animals in the western part of the state beginning in 2022 or 2023.

The Southern Rocky Mountains contain millions of acres of suitable habitat—where wolves once thrived—land that could support several hundred wolves or more, biologists say.

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[Shipper 13,114]

Im glad the people get to chose since those wolves might go to towns (very unlikely but still worrisome since any animal would go where the food is) but this is a great way for people to be more informed about this.

[Horny Chicken 10,963]

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6 minutes ago, JK Rowling said:

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[Gagaloo911 12,959]

So proud I was one of those people who voted to pass this ballot measure. 

It was really close!!