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June 11 CPW meeting highlights failure to share data: “Producers left in the dark”

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Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioner Tai Jacober said it’s “ugly” right now for Pitkin County livestock producers.

In the June 11 CPW Commission meeting, he said when a particular pack of wolves, the Copper Creek pack, were causing problems for livestock producers, CPW and the commission made decisions that have landed the wolves and the producers again, in a problematic situation. Jacober criticized the decision to go “against the management plan and capture the wolves, went further against the management plan and rereleased the wolves, and here we are today.”

“Not only is it a blunder on the agency, it’s a blunder on the wolves, and it’s really difficult on the ranchers,” he said. “It seems we’ve removed one wolf — a yearling wolf that was kicked out of the pack, trying to survive — and I think we need to be accountable for a mistake that we made, putting this depredating pack back on the landscape and make a quick, fast discussion about how to move forward with clearly, unfortunately a bad pack of animals.”

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Colorado’s wolf plan ignores the one thing wolves don’t: borders

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Over the last month, two of Colorado’s latest gray wolf transplants were killed after crossing the border into Wyoming. 

Colorado Parks and Wildlife expects these types of movements into other states from the reintroduced wolf population. The species is known for traveling long distances in search of food or mates. 

However, once the wolves leave Colorado, they lose certain protections afforded to them by both state and federal laws. But just how those protections change, and what might happen to them, depends entirely on which way they travel.

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Hurd, Bacon, Gottheimer, Meeks introduce bill to restore Congress’ constitutional role in trade

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Rep. Jeff Hurd, R-Colo., along with Reps. Don Bacon, R-Neb., Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., introduced bipartisan legislation to return Congress’ constitutionally authorized role in setting and approving U.S. trade policy. H.R.2665, The Trade Review Act of 2025, requires that unilateral tariffs proposed by the executive branch receive congressional authority.

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RFK Jr. aide: MAHA Commission will ‘lay out why’ kids are sick, not policy

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Calley Means, a leader of the Make America Healthy Again Movement and a top aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., said Wednesday that the Make America Healthy Again Commission established by the White House “is not going to lay out policy, it is going to lay out why” American kids “are the sickest in the world.”

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From Wyoming to Colorado: courts say corner crossing is legal

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A ruling by a federal appeals court has concluded that a congressional act preempts a state’s power to impose and enforce its own trespass laws. Corner crossing, accessing public land from one piece to another where two parcels meet with two privately owned parcels without stepping foot on privately owned land, is now legal in the 10th Circuit’s six states: Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Oklahoma and Kansas.

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