{"id":799499,"date":"2019-09-16T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=371571"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T15:00:24","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-wolves-have-a-place-in-the-colorado-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-wolves-have-a-place-in-the-colorado-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Wolves have a place in the Colorado ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for publishing the letter to the editor \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/letter-to-the-editor-wolves-will-cause-devastation\/\">Wolves will cause devastation<\/a>\u201d (published Sept. 10 in the Summit Daily News). I believe the author Harlan Allman is incorrect in his analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf researchers who spend hours in the field actually watching wolves find that they have a hunting success of maybe 10%. That hardly causes devastation in the prey species.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves and their prey have coexisted for millennia. It is humans who nearly exterminated buffalo and elk.<\/p>\n<p>Further, as the threat of chronic wasting disease looms, there are indications that the wolves detect (and kill) infected animals before we humans can detect the illness.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves have a place in the Colorado ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-wolves-have-a-place-in-the-colorado-ecosystem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for publishing the letter to the editor \u201cWolves will cause devastation\u201d (published Sept. 10 in the Summit Daily News). I believe the author Harlan Allman is incorrect in his analysis. Wolf researchers who spend hours in the field actually watching wolves find that they have a hunting success of maybe 10%. That hardly [&hellip;]<\/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":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-799499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 05:39:55","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}