The recent roadblock thrown in front of Colorado’s voter-mandated wolf reintroduction by the Trump administration may force state wildlife officials to find a new source of wolves, just months before the next planned releases this winter.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife had contracted again with Canada for wolves to bring to the state after finding few willing sources within the United States. But a letter sent to CPW by the new head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month warned that doing so would violate a legal agreement between the two agencies.

The letter was the biggest indication yet of a major change in the federal executive branch’s stance on Colorado’s wolf reintroduction since President Donald Trump returned to office. In fact, it marked an about-face from the Fish and W

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