Johnnie LeFaiver took her son to the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park this summer, because the experience of watching wolves there 20 years ago seared into her memory and she wanted Micah to have the same opportunity.

One day, they watched a pack of nine gray wolves feeding on a dead bison, and on another day, two black wolves competing with a grizzly bear for a different carcass. But when they told fellow wolf watchers they were from Colorado, “it unleashed these questions about how things were going with wolf reintroduction here,” LeFavier said, “and there was so much I couldn’t answer.”

That’s because news on Colorado’s wolf front has changed so fast and furiously, she added.

Indeed it has, especially in the last several weeks.

Over Memorial Day weekend, a wolf from the sta

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