Colorado Parks and Wildlife has updated its rules to allow ranchers to kill wolves that are actively attacking “working dogs.”
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service late last year finalized a document, known as the10(j) rule, that outlinedwhen wolves could be killed in Colorado, and paved the way for thespecies to be reintroducedin the state.
Months after the release of 10 wolves in the state, theColorado Parks and Wildlife Commissionvoted unanimously Friday, July 19, to update state regulations to reflect the 10(j) rule’s language regarding “working dogs.”
Language allowing wolves caught “in the act of attacking” livestock or working dogs to be killed was included in the 10(j) rule but the words “or working dogs” were “inadvertently” left out of the state regulations, commission chair Dallas May said Friday.
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Originally Published: July 22, 2024 at 2:37 p.m.
