Mission Statement

Colorado Conservation Alliance is a collaborative organization of private property landowners, ranchers, farmers, livestock producers, sportsmen and sportswomen, outfitters, natural resource affiliations, and businesses, with a mission to protect our Colorado outdoor heritage, wildlife habitats, businesses, state and local economies, through responsible science-based wildlife and natural resource management.

How we got here

• February 21, 2025 : Colorado Conservation Alliance released a StoryMap on how much suitable wolf habitat there is on the Western Slope of Colorado. Turns out, it’s much less than just the Western half of the State.
• December 13, 2024 : Congresswoman Lauren Boebert sent a letter insisting that the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and other offices that operate under Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) proceed to update all Resource Management Plans for Colorado to include consideration of the wolves now artificially imported to the state.
• December 6, 2024 : CCA filed an official letter with the British Columbia (Canada) Minister of Water, Lands and Resource Stewardship requesting that they put a pause on providing wolves to Colorado.
• November 25, 2024 : CCA filed a formal demand to the BLM, USFS, NPS, and USFWS to update their relevant RMPs, GMPs, CCPs, and associated management plans to include analyses and management actions resulting from gray wolves on the landscape.
• November 21, 2024 : CCA filed a legal motion in Federal Court to have the Court acknowledge that USFWS provided CPW with a Wolf Compensation and Conflict Mitigation Grant in the amount of $109,000.00.
• January 24, 2024 : Shortly after CCA filed its final legal arguments to stop additional introductions—CPW filed a Notice with the Court that they would not release any additional wolves in Colorado during this season.
• January 12, 2024 : The CCA replied to all Defendants arguments.
• January 5, 2024 : The Defendants, as well as various wildlife anti-use groups proposing to intervene in the case, filed legal arguments opposing the CCA’s motion.
• December 22, 2023, the CCA moved the Court for a preliminary injunction to halt the introduction of additional wolves in Colorado.
• December 15, 2023 : Federal District Judge Regina Rodriguez denied Colorado Cattlemen’s request to halt the reintroduction of gray wolves just days before the animals were set to be released. Therefore, the Colorado Cattlemen withdrew their suit.
• December 14, 2023 : Colorado Conservation Alliance filed their suit in Federal Court.
• December 11, 2023 : The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and Gunnison County Stockgrowers’ Association sued Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delay the reintroduction of gray wolves into Colorado.
• On December 8, 2023, the USFWS EIS became effective after the 30-day waiting period of their final and published Record of Decision.
• November 8, 2023 , USFWS published its final Record of Decision in the Federal Register.
• On October 6, 2023, it was reported that Oregon confirms it will supply Colorado with wolves as early as December.
• On October 3, 2023, it was reported Idaho’s Nez Perce Tribe will ‘likely’ provide wolves to Colorado by the end of this year.
• September 19, 2023, that final EIS was published in the Federal Register.
• On September 19, 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announced the availability of a final environmental impact statement (EIS) and draft record of decision (ROD) … for the intended action of establishing a nonessential experimental population (NEP) of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in the State of Colorado. This NEP, under section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, would provide for allowable, legal, purposeful, and incidental take of the gray wolf within the State of Colorado.
• September 15, 2023 : USFWS released its final EIS.
• At the May 2023 CPW Commission meeting, the commission voted to remove phase 4 from the draft Wolf plan which eliminated any lethal method of take of wolves.
• On May 16, 2023, the Governor vetoed the bi-partisan bill, calling it unnecessary, that it undermined voters’ intent, as well as the commission’s work, and suggested it could interfere with the state “successfully receiving experimental population designation”.
• In May 2023, SB23-256 (a bi-partisan bill) in the State Legislature was passed that would have prohibited the introduction of gray wolves into Colorado until a 10(j) permit was issued, designating the wolves as a nonessential experimental population (NEP). The 10(j) permit gives the state greater flexibility to manage the wolves involved in livestock depredations.
• In November 2020, Colorado voters narrowly passed Proposition 114 directing the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission to restore and manage gray wolves in Colorado no later than December 31, 2023, on designated lands west of the Continental Divide; hold statewide hearings about scientific, economic, and social considerations; periodically obtain public input to update the plan; and use state funds to assist livestock owners in preventing conflicts with gray wolves and pay fair compensation for livestock losses.
• In 2019, the Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund (RMWAF) began collecting signatures for a proposed 2020 ballot measure that would restore the gray wolf to Colorado. Rob Edward, president of RMWAF, summarized the petition: “Initiative 107 directs the Colorado Department of Parks & Wildlife to initiate a science-based wolf restoration plan, to include public input into the process, and to ultimately begin reintroducing wolves to designated lands west of the Continental Divide in Colorado no later than 2023.”
• In 2018, CPW biologists said there was no need to introduce wolves into Colorado