Marj Perry’s Op-Ed makes a number of unfounded claims about the potential effects of wolves in Colorado (“
Perry also questions whether we should be concerned about the impact of wolves on Southwest Colorado elk populations. Most western Colorado elk management units are at or above Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s target level. And if you look north to Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, where wolves were restored beginning in 1995, you find that those states have more elk today than 1995, with robust populations of wolves.
Wolves, people and livestock can all get along. All wolves need is something to eat and human tolerance. We have plenty of the first, and we are honorable and moral enough to have plenty of the second.
Gary SkibaAztec
