With the reintroduction of wolves in Colorado due on the fall ballot, and with surveyed support for the measure preliminarily strong, we are not surprised to see more push-back (“
If this sounds like Lucy with the football, or “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,” it seems to have the same ring to Rob Edwards of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund.
Wolf champions intend to move ahead with a vote on possibly releasing 30 wolves a year for three years, Edwards said, to eventually yield, with natural increase, somewhere around 500 wolves calling the Western Slope home. And they will not support Donovan’s bill: “We have a very clear vision for what reintroduction looks like,” he said. “Accepting ambiguity is not ... a good way forward.”
So far, wolves on the ballot are unstoppable. Perhaps both sides instead should focus on their campaigns, where there are cases yet to be made.
