High Country News contributing editor Michelle Nijhuis talks with Michael Soule, the father of conservation biology, about his excitement at the prospect of wolves returning to Colorado, the role of private land in wildlife conservation, and why he took up hunting as an adult.
This piece accompanies Prodigal Dogs, Nijhuis' story about wolves returning to Colorado.
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Amazing. Somehow or other, we have a population of about 1,600 wolves in WY, MT, and ID, the vast majority of them outside Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton. Latest figures for YNP show just barely over 100 wolves in the park. Where are the rest of the wolves (1400 or so) in the three states living? Most lethal control of wolves takes place on private land due to coflicts. So, the non-park public lands must be able to support quite a few wolves.