Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Thursday that one of the male wolves brought to Colorado in January from British Columbia has died.
The wolf was killed by staff associated with the US Department of Agriculture after it was suspected of killing five sheep in north-central Wyoming, according to a spokesperson for the department’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
Tanya Espinosa, a public affairs specialist for APHIS, said that on March 15, USDA’s Wildlife Services responded to a sheep predation event on private lands in north central Wyoming…