United States District Court declines to issue temporary restraining order halting gray wolf reintroduction efforts in Colorado - by Jan Wondra

On December 15, The United States District Court, District of Colorado, declined to issue a temporary restraining order prohibiting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Colorado Parks and Wildlife )CPW) from reintroducing wolves in Colorado. A last-ditch legal effort by Gunnison area ranchers had asked for a stay of the reintroduction on the grounds that CPW had not adequately studied the impacts on livestock and ranching. But over the past three years, extensive meetings have been held with constituencies to mitigate the impacts on farming and ranching. With this...