{"id":2453891,"date":"2020-01-29T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/enough-of-the-wolf-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:53:01","slug":"enough-of-the-wolf-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/enough-of-the-wolf-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough of the wolf rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I am one of many western Coloradans embracing any efforts to reclaim our wildlands and the native biodiversity that supports healthy ecosystems, thus I am howling yes for wolves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Let\u2019s stop the unfounded nonsensical rhetoric and focus on the science. Deliberate wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies has provided the opportunity for applied study and resultant empirical evidence that puts Mr. Keith\u2019s exaggerated claims to rest (\u201cHowl no to wolves in Colorado, letters, Jan. 28 The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">According to CPW, upon reintroduction and based on what has occurred in Montana, we can expect wolves to annually consume on average 2% of the Colorado elk and deer population. It is important to consider hunters\u2019 annual take in order to put wolf survival consumption into perspective. Based on CPW estimates, Colorado hunters\u2019 annual take translates into approximately 9 percent of our deer and elk. While wolves are selectively targeting the weak and diseased, effectively reducing and or stopping the Chronic Wasting Disease to which Mr. Keith refers, hunters are targeting the strongest and healthiest of specimens. Lastly, wilderness and wolves are not new neighbors. Quite the contrary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Edie Engstrom<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Redstone<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/enough-of-the-wolf-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am one of many western Coloradans embracing any efforts to reclaim our wildlands and the native biodiversity that supports healthy ecosystems, thus I am howling yes for wolves. Let\u2019s stop the unfounded nonsensical rhetoric and focus on the science. Deliberate wolf reintroduction in the Northern Rockies has provided the opportunity for applied study and [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2453891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 07:46:35","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453916,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453891\/revisions\/2453916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}