{"id":1317214,"date":"2019-12-11T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=991687"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:21:01","slug":"wolf-supporters-say-they-have-200000-signatures-for-reintroduction-question-on-2020-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/wolf-supporters-say-they-have-200000-signatures-for-reintroduction-question-on-2020-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf supporters say they have 200,000 signatures for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorado is becoming a battleground for wolf reintroduction.<\/strong>
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The fight to return wolves to Colorado\u2019s West Slope begins now. <\/p>\n

With wolf pack supporters planning on Tuesday to submit more than 208,000 signatures supporting a November 2020 ballot measure calling for the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado, voters could soon hear a pitched howling over wolves for most of next year. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our last opportunity to do it right and to restore the balance,\u201d said Rob Edward, whose  Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund<\/a> has been collecting signatures since June for a 2020 ballot measure \u2014 Initiative 107<\/a> \u2014 that directs the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to craft a plan to restore and manage gray wolves in Colorado by the end of 2023. The group needs about 124,000 valid signatures to qualify for the 2020 ballot. <\/p>\n

As the group transitions from harvesting signatures to swaying voters, opponents of wolf reintroduction are girding for battle. And it\u2019s a new type of battle for opponents of wolf reintroduction, who in other states across the West and Great Lakes region have lobbied wildlife commissioners \u2014 not voters \u2014 to oppose reintroduction. The Colorado Stop the Wolf Coalition<\/a> is strategizing a first-ever public campaign, seeking to educate voters on potential negative impacts of introducing the wolf to the state. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of people who don\u2019t want wolves brought into Colorado. We just can\u2019t sustain another predator in this state,\u201d said Denny Behrens, co-chair of the Stop the Wolf Coalition.<\/p>\n

Read more via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado is becoming a battleground for wolf reintroduction.Shutterstock The fight to return wolves to Colorado\u2019s West Slope begins now.  With wolf pack supporters planning on Tuesday to submit more than 208,000 signatures supporting a November 2020 ballot measure calling for the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado, voters could soon hear a pitched howling over wolves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 06:25:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}