{"id":298476,"date":"2025-11-18T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:16:09","slug":"washington-state-rejects-colorados-request-for-wolves-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/298476\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington state rejects Colorado’s request for wolves this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission rejected Colorado’s request in an 8-1 vote.<\/p>\n

DENVER \u2014 Washington state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 8-1 not to give Colorado wolves this winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s (CPW) director wants to introduce wolves for a third straight winter, but CPW has not yet publicly secured a source.<\/p>\n

CPW Director Jeff Davis spoke to Washington’s Wildlife Commission virtually Saturday morning, making the case to his former employer.<\/p>\n

“I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I’ve had the privilege and honor of serving Washington state residents for over 20 years,” Davis reminded the commission.<\/p>\n

Davis came to Colorado from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n

“I do want to acknowledge the magnitude of our request, and your mandate to deliver benefits to Washington’s beneficiaries, and that this request is based on Colorado’s urgency and not your own. I do offer that you have the opportunity to help gray wolf recovery on a larger scale by helping us establish a sustainable population of wolves that are critical to the recovery in the southern Rocky Mountains,” Davis said.<\/p>\n

9NEWS Investigates first reported CPW had signed a deal with British Columbia<\/a> to import wolves from Canada for a second straight year. That contract was signed Oct. 3. A week after CPW signed that deal, the head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sent a letter to CPW telling Davis to “cease and desist” from importing wolves. That letter is dated Oct. 10.<\/p>\n

The conflict between Colorado and the federal government resulted in British Columbia pausing its deal<\/a> with CPW. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“At this time there is no plan for WDFW to provide wolves to Colorado. It is not being discussed or on an agenda for a future Commission meeting at this time either,” a spokesperson for Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife told 9NEWS on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n

By Nov. 7, that had changed.<\/p>\n

“The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Director and Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission have received a request from Colorado to provide wolves for release, and are reviewing it,” a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson told 9NEWS.<\/p>\n

Washington’s commission debated the request on Saturday, Nov. 15.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I believe that we are making a decision very quickly, in response to the actions of the federal government, with virtually no information, and I don’t believe that is the right way to go,” one Washington Commissioner stated during their Saturday meeting, before the vote.<\/p>\n

The commissioners voted 8-1 against providing wolves to Colorado right now; however, several commissioners expressed openness to revisiting the request in the future, if wolves are not listed as an endangered species in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission rejected Colorado’s request in an 8-1 vote. DENVER \u2014 Washington state’s Fish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-298476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}