{"id":345059,"date":"2025-12-12T20:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345059\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:29:07","slug":"colorado-wolf-captured-in-new-mexico-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345059\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado wolf captured in New Mexico, returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife re-released a wolf into Grand County this week after it had traveled into New Mexico, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish captured gray wolf 2403 and returned the animal to Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado wildlife officials decided to release the wolf in Grand County yesterday because of the proximity to \u201can unpaired female gray wolf,\u201d nearby prey populations and distance from livestock, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGray wolf 2403 has been returned to Colorado and released in a location where it can best contribute to CPW\u2019s efforts to establish a self-sustaining wolf population while concurrently attempting to minimize potential wolf-related livestock conflicts,\u201d said acting director of CPW Laura Clellan, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>The wolf was once a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/08\/colorado-wolves-copper-creek-pack-depredations-concerns-cattle-ranchers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">member of the Copper Creek<\/a> pack but departed from it this fall.<\/p>\n<p>A memorandum of understanding between Colorado and Arizona, New Mexico and Utah requires that any gray wolves that leave Colorado and enter those states be returned. That was created in part to maintain the integrity of a Mexican wolf recovery program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognized during the planning process that we would need to have consideration and plans to protect the genetic integrity of the Mexican wolf recovery program, while also establishing a gray wolf population in Colorado,\u201d said CPW\u2019s Wolf Conservation Program Manager Eric Odell, according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Parks and Wildlife re-released a wolf into Grand County this week after it had traveled into New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3832,9045,25043,192,47197,2558,34650,3828,3,79,201,28262,24430],"class_list":["post-345059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-colorado-parks-and-wildlife","tag-environment","tag-gray-wolf","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mountains","tag-new-mexico","tag-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wolf","tag-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345059","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=345059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}