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DENVER — Colorado wildlife officials have dusted off a drafted plan to reintroduce wolverines to the state, a proposal drastically different from the controversial but voter-mandated wolf reintroduction plan from last spring.
Wolverines were extirpated from Colorado in 1919 due to unregulated trapping and predator poisoning campaigns, and were listed as an endangered animal in Colorado in 1973. Klute explained that CPW used data and information from experts to determine what a wolverine reintroduction would look like in Colorado. He told the CPW Commission on Wednesday that Colorado could hold a maximum of 100 to 180 animals if they mimic the same behavior as their original territories.
Based on a population viability analysis and Sweden's data set of wolverine survival and breeding success, CPW Mammals Researcher Jake Ivan suggested that CPW should release 30 wolverines — 20 females and 10 males — over the first two years of the reintroduction effort. The first to go will be males and non-pregnant females, Ivan said. Experts strongly felt that the wolverines should be released directly into snowy dens pre-prepared by CPW. In addition to building the dens for the animals, CPW will discreetly provide food for them for at least the first few months, Ivan said. He explained that this will maximize their chances of survival and staying around the release location.
The proposal to reintroduce wolverines to Colorado is not new — it's something the CPW has eyed since the late 1990s. This move allowed CPW to look at getting a 10 designation for wolverines, which it can now do because of its listed status. Section 10 in the federal Endangered Species Act, which was also used in the gray wolf reintroduction process, allows the federal government to designate a population of a listed species — like the wolverines — as experimental if they are set to be released into natural habitat outside their current range, like Colorado.
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