Memorandum of Understanding For the Reintroduction of Gray Wolves in Colorado

Memorandum of Understanding For the Reintroduction of Gray Wolves in Colorado
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Signed 9/26/2023.

Through this Memorandum of Understanding (hereinafter referred to as "Agreement"), the Signatory Agencies agree to cooperate to implement actions necessary to assist in Colorado Parks and Wildlife's gray wolf restoration efforts, protect the genetic integrity of the Mexican gray wolf population, and collaborate in association with the l0(a)(l)(A) permit for neighboring states outside of Colorado's 10G) boundary to return wolves that leave the experimental population area.

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Colorado Ecological Services Field Office
The Colorado Ecological Services Field Offices have staff in Lakewood and Grand Junction who work with partners to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants, and the environments upon which they depend.
Conservation Office
Lakewood,CO
Grand Junction,CO
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The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
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Baileys Crossroads,VA
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A gray wolf lays in the the snow-covered grass

ESA status: endangered (February 2022) except Northern Rocky Mtn of ID, MT, WY; eastern 1/3 of OR, WA; north-central UT; threatened (Dec 2014) in MN. 

The gray wolf, being a keystone predator, is an integral component of the...

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Animalia
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Mountain
Prairie
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Mountain-Prairie