Due to extermination programs, the population of gray wolves in the US was almost entirely gone by the 1940s, but for the first time in decades, the rare wolves have been spotted in the Colorado wilderness.
A press release by representatives of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) department confirmed “the likely presence of multiple wolves in northwest Colorado,” due to the discovery of a scavenged elk carcass in Moffat County and nearby tracks. Together with an eyewitness report of six large wolves near the Wyoming and Utah border, these discoveries suggest that a pack of gray wolves is residing in northwest Colorado.
