REPS. BOEBERT, CRANK, EVANS, & HURD RELEASE JOINT STATEMENT ON FOREIGN WOLVES IMPORTED INTO COLORADO

WASHINGTON D.C.-- House Representatives Lauren Boebert (CO-04), Jeff Crank (CO-05), Gabe Evans (CO-08), and Jeff Hurd (CO-03) released a joint statement following reports of Colorado Parks & Wildlife importing Canadian gray wolves into Colorado over this past weekend: “After years of slighting or outright ignoring Colorado farmers and ranchers with politically appointed anti-agricultural activists and “meat-free days,” bureaucrats in Colorado have rushed through the importation of Canadian gray wolves and have set them loose in our state despite numerous protests and questions about the legality of this dysfunctional and chaotic approach. We are demanding answers from the Department of Interior on why agencies like the Bureau of Land Management have failed to provide any evidence of statutorily required updates to Resource Management Plans to address the importation of wolves and how they will impact our agricultural producers, our sovereign Indian tribes, sportsmen, and our oil & gas producers across the state. With wolf numbers surging across the country, we stand united in support of legislation like H.R. 130 to delist the gray wolf from the Endangered Species Act and we urge the incoming Trump Administration to take immediate action by stopping further importation of these foreign predators into the United States. Colorado’s agricultural producers have lost $580,000 in just one year from wolves already introduced. We should be working with our farmers and ranchers who tirelessly labor to feed us, instead of hastily rushing foreign predators into our state and bloating even further a terribly mismanaged wolf program.”
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