Comment from Friends of Animals
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Summary: Friends of Animals, a non-profit advocacy organization, urges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore full Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves in Colorado. They argue that the current Section 10(j) rule allows for excessive lethal management and that the population is currently too small to sustain such removals.
Please see the attached comments and references on behalf of Friends of Animals.
Attachments
- FoA Comments re 10j CO Gray Wolves_FWS_FWS-R6-ES-2026-0958 June 5 2026 (PDF)
- Ali Longwell Copper Creek Section What went wrong with the Copper Creek wolf pack Aug 12 2025 (PDF)
- Bridgett M vonHoldt Demographic history shapes North American gray wolf genomic diversity and informs 2023 (PDF)
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife A Producers Guide to Livestock Depredations March 25 2024 (PDF)
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife CPW and CDA prepare for 2025 gray wolf releases with improved Livestock Conflict Minimization Program Dec 9 2024 (PDF)
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife Wolf Annual Report 2025-2026 4-30-26 May 7 2026 (PDF)
- Eliza Schmelzer Colorado wolf reintroduction faces inflection point amid uncertainty May 7 2026 (PDF)
- Gov Polis shrinks funding for Colorados wolf reintroduction to address state budget crisis Aug 28 2025 (PDF)
- Oregon Dept of Fish and Wildlife 2025 Annual Wolf Report 2026 (PDF)
- Spencer Roberts USDA Whistleblower Reveals Fraudulent Wolf Kills May 24 2022 (PDF)
- Technical Working Group Report to Colorado Parks and Wildlife 2022 (PDF)
- Tracy Ross Colorado drivers spend 1M on born to be wild license plates Nov 25 2025 (PDF)
- USDA NASS WY News Release Wyoming Sheep Lamb Losses 2024 Feb 14 2025 (PDF)
- USFWS Seeks Information on Illegal Killing of Gray Wolf in Grand County CO US Fish and Wildlife Service Apr 2024 (PDF)
- Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife Washington Gray Wolf Conservation and Management 2025 Annual Report April 28 2026 (PDF)
- Wood River Wolf Project History 2024 (PDF)
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife Colorado Wolf Restoration Management Plan 2023 (PDF)
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife 2024 2025 Wolf Report (PDF)