The wolves roaming the state have new pups that are being monitored by wildlife officials, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed Thursday.
A spokesman for the agency declined to say how many pups have been spotted — or from how many litters — but said staff members had begun to tally the number of new additions to the state’s growing wolf population.
“We continue monitoring four den sites,” spokesman Travis Duncan said in an email. “CPW staff have begun to get minimum counts of pups by both direct observations and indirect methods.”
It is difficult for biologists to know exactly how many pups there are because they remain in dens and can be difficult to spot, he said.
Wildlife advocates cheered the news of pups, especially after a series of deaths among the wolves released earlier this year as part of the state’s voter-mandated reintroduction.
“To see Colorado’s wolf families grow is amazing and worth celebrating — congratulations to all who have made this possible,” Chris Smith, the wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians, said in a news release. “Progress has been slow and there will be fits and starts to any species’ recovery. But this is how restoration works.”
The pups are the second group to be born from reintroduced wolves. A mated pair from the first batch of wolves released in December 2023 produced a litter of five, though one of those pups was killed last month by CPW officials after it was connected to livestock killings.
Eight of the 25 wolves released in Colorado have died in the reintroduction program’s 18-month history.
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