Overview
- Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed no additional gray wolves will be translocated this season and will explore options for winter 2026–27.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered a stop to Canadian sourcing and warned it could assume the program unless Colorado provides a full accounting of management actions.
- Washington’s wildlife commission and the Colville Tribes declined to supply wolves, leaving the state without domestic or tribal sources for this release season.
- Eleven of the 25 wolves released since 2023 have died, and the latest death of female 2504 is under federal investigation with a necropsy pending.
- Four packs produced litters last summer, with at least 10 pups and 19 collared wolves documented, as CPW expands range riding and compensation to reduce livestock conflicts.