Colorado is finalizing a 300-page plan to reintroduce wolves to the state, from which they were eradicated by the 1940s. The reintroduction effort is being closely watched nationwide.
,” allowing more “flexibility” — a term that can include killing wolves that attack livestock. Ranchers, including Gittleson, want that. Wolf advocates worry it will set back a fledgling population.Under Colorado’s plan, wolves are likely to be captured in the Northern Rockies and released in a Central Colorado area where the state says there is an overlap of suitable habitat and social tolerance.
The opinions aren’t so adamant on the mountain-flanked ranch where Gittleson and his wife have 190 cows and 39 heifers. That has made it a sort of Rorschach test — a place where opponents see proof of wolves’ threat and advocates spot glimmers of the potential for coexistence. “Here, the public is seeing that maybe they’re not quite the sweet little things they think,” Gittleson, 65, said as a winter-white hare dashed through leafless willows nearby. “And maybe the rancher’s not the biggest S.O.B. in the world.”
The day before, the state wildlife commission held one of its final hearings on the reintroduction plan in Steamboat Springs, an hour away. The front rows of a college auditorium overlooking snowy slopes were filled with parks and wildlife employees in brown uniforms. Behind them, some audience members wore shirts with wolves on them. Others wore cowboy hats and camo.
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