Colorado wolf reported dead in Wyoming
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the month of translocation from British Columbia.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reported a male gray wolf relocated to the state from Canada last summer as deceased in Wyoming, according to a news statement.
On Friday evening, CPW confirmed “the mortality of male gray wolf 2513 on April 9 in Wyoming,” according to the release.
The wildlife agency said it does not “comment on wildlife movements, operations or regulations in other states” but that the wolf was part of the group of wolves translocated to Colorado from British Columbia, Canada in January.
“CPW coordinated with Wyoming Game and Fish for the return of its tracking collar, however, Wyoming state law prevents further detail from being shared,” the release stated.
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“Wolves are known to travel long distances to find food or mates, including into other states,” according to the CPW news statement, which added the agency has “no further comment on the mortality of wolf 2513 as it took place outside of Colorado.”
Gray wolves are not included on Wyoming’s endangered species list, and roughly 85% of the state falls under Wyoming Game and Fish Department predator control area rules. These rules allow wolves to be killed at any time without a license.
Friday’s report of the deceased wolf comes after federal officials killed a Colorado wolf suspected of attacking livestock on private land in Wyoming last month.
That wolf, also translocated from Canada and tagged: (2505-BC), was killed following a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service investigation in response to a sheep predation event on private land in north-central Wyoming, according to Tanya Espinosa, a spokesperson for the federal agency.
This story is from SteamboatPilot.com
