Contact Name: Todd Malmsbury
Contact Phone: (303) 291-7410
The 24 members of the Wolf Management Working Group that will draft a statewide
wolf management plan for submission to the Division of Wildlife director will
hold its first meeting on June 10 in
“The first meeting will be primarily organizational in nature, focusing on the
overall process agenda, procedural ground rules, issues, and information
needs,” said Gary Skiba, multi species coordinator
for the Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW).
The DOW’s wolf management working group page can be
accessed at http://wildlife.state.co.us/species_cons/GrayWolf/workinggroup/,
and will include a link to notes from the meetings and documents that the group
will use as the draft plan progresses.
The Wolf Management Working Group is composed of members of the livestock,
environmental, and sportsman communities as well as wildlife biologists, local
government employees, and employees of federal and state government agencies.
The multi-disciplinary work group will be asked to develop a draft plan by the
end of August of this year.
Members of the Wolf Working Group will include:
Del Benson, professor of wildlife biology at Colorado State University
Anne Ruggles, consulting wildlife biologist
Michael Bond, Front Range sportsman
Dick Steele, President of the Colorado Sportsman’s Wildlife Fund
Les Hampton, Moffat County Commissioner
Robert Bray, rancher from southwest Colorado
Bonnie Kline, Executive Director of the Colorado Wool Growers Association
Duke Phillips, rancher from eastern Colorado
Jean Stetson, rancher from northwest Colorado
Rob Edward, Director of Sinapu Carnivore Restoration
Program
Mark Pearson, Executive Director of the San Juan Citizen Alliance
Dyanne Singler, land
stewardship manager for the National Wildlife Federation
Gary Wockner, biologist from northeast Colorado
Joe Duda, Colorado State Forest Service
Jim Grady, Colorado Department of Agriculture
Susan Linner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Stefanie Dalgar, Colorado
Office of Economic Development
Raul Morales, Bureau of Land Management
Michael Yeary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
(Wildlife Services)
Nancy Warren, U.S. Forest Service
Gary Skiba, Colorado Division of Wildlife
Tom Bender, Larimer County Commissioner
Bob Moon, Park Services
Dan Prenzlow, Colorado Division of Wildlife
Member nomination forms can be viewed at:
http://wildlife.state.co.us/species_cons/GrayWolf/groupnominations/
Gray wolves have been reintroduced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service into
Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona.
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