Ranchers and lawmakers in Colorado are urging state wildlife agents to revisit wolf management rules following the reintroduction of grey wolves in December.
Grey wolves are a federally endangered species, only allowing them to be killed to save a human life, but Colorado now has additional management authority with U.S. Fish and Wildlife creating the 10 (j) Rule, allowing the state to decide if a rancher catches a wolf in the act of attacking livestock or in chronic depredation, they can kill it.
The rule would deem the wolves an experimental population.
