You folks in CO had better organize, raise funds and put together a good message quickly.
As the article states, these groups use lies, disinformation and emotional, propagandized information that many otherwise smart people, ignorantly lap right up. It is disgusting and we've watched it happen for two decades now--constantly moving the goal posts and costing the taxpayers enormous amounts of money and lost game in the process. All with a wolf that is an invasive subspecies to begin with, forced to be introduced to the lower 48 from Canada, eradicating the known population, forever, of Rocky Mountain Wolf subspecies that was here already. THAT is the subspecies the abused ESA should've been saving. In the end, 60-70 million dollars from Pittman-Roberston money was used to do the introduction of these Canadian wolves. Congress said no to $ for this. The locals said no to wolves, but the USFWS used Pittman-Robertson money, money that is supposed to be distributed to state wildlife agencies to benefit all wildlife, to pull this off. All the while these so-call 'conservationist' groups, which have co-opted that term and are anything but conservationist groups and in reality are 'preservationist' groups, falsely using the conservationist term that really should be applied to hunters and hunting...meanwhile they continue to moan and wail for years about not having enough genetic diversity, etc. in the wolf population. The established, agreed upon goalposts where moved constantly as these groups judge shopped and found judges happy to do their bidding.
The wolf is perhaps one of the most successful species in the world. There is hardly any species that kills, breeds and spreads so efficiently, but much of the public has been sold, and the public has bought by and large, a bill of goods regarding these fuzzy, lovable predators.
And now the press is on to force them to be brought in CO. Some of them are already there. My guess with the current liberal state of CO overall...forced wolf reintroduction will be an easy sell.
