The North Park Stockgrowers Association has penned a letter to Colorado Parks and Wildlife after receiving a letter from the organization explaining the reasoning behind not taking lethal measures against a wolf proven to have killed livestock.
Mark Hackleman, president of the North Park Stockgrowers Association, says it’s getting out of hand and something needs to change.
“We’ve had two depredations in the month of April in North Park. The guys in Middle Park are taking most of the abuse,” Hackleman said. “Quite frankly, CPW should be taking care of the problem.”
CPW believes the wolf in question is mating since collar locations show that a female wolf is staying near it as well, so it doesn’t want to cull a wolf that it believes could be adding to the wolf population in Colorado. Hackleman said he had concerns about that exact situation.
“It’s hard to think that a dog wouldn’t teach their young the same behavior,” Hackleman mused. “That’s an unfortunate situation, I mean, we understand the CPW is tasked by law to regenerate a population of wolves here.”