DENVER (KDVR) — At least one of Colorado’s gray wolves in March entered a new Denver area county and new watersheds in northern Park County, some of the closest areas to the Denver metro they have been tracked since their initial reintroduction .
Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday released a new map for collared wolf activity between Feb. 25 and March 25 , showing wolf activity in Clear Creek County and in watersheds that extend into northern Park County toward the Jefferson County border.
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CPW tracks the wolves based on watersheds they enter at some point in the month-long span, but they do not report exact locations within those watersheds.
The Park County watersheds that wolves have now entered include U.S. 285 and Bailey, and the Clear Creek County watersheds include Interstate 70 on the western side of the county, as well as Berthoud Pass and Empire. That does not necessarily mean the wolves were in any of these towns or areas specifically.
The wolves are still exploring regions that include watersheds extending past Colorado’s border with Wyoming, but a CPW spokesperson said the agency does not comment on wolf movements in other states. A Colorado wolf was shot and killed by federal wildlife officials in Wyoming earlier this month, a U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesperson confirmed…