Some genius over at the Denver Post decided to drop another jewel from the “woke wilderness” file, reporting that a Jackson County wolf pack tore through multiple working ranches—again—and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has decided to do exactly squat about it.
Yes folks, this comes straight out of the ivory towers of Denver/Boulder braintrust democracy: where urban environmentalists riding rented e-scooters get to decide what happens 200 miles away in someone else’s pasture.
The Bullet Point Brief
- A wolf pack in Jackson County just racked up a horrific kill count: livestock massacred like it’s a free-for-all buffet.
- CPW evaluated said massacre and went: “Meh.” No lethal action recommended. No new plan. Just more howling at the moon.
- Local ranchers didn’t vote for this crap—the urban elite pushing Prop 114 did. Now real families are paying for someone else’s virtue signaling.
- Releasing apex predators based on polls from people who can’t tell mule deer from Labradors? Ballot-box biology gone full stupid.
- Colorado government proves once again that protecting ideology > protecting livelihoods. Real wildlife management has left the building.
My Bottom Line
Do you need any more proof that letting city dwellers play David Attenborough with our actual ecosystem is a bad idea? Ranch families are losing sleep, cattle, and income because some granola-crunching dog lover from Boulder wanted to “rewild” rural Colorado like it’s some backyard biodome experiment. Except this ain’t Animal Planet—it’s blood on the snow, steers ripped apart, and a government twiddling its thumbs like it’s watching a nature doc narrated by apathy itself.
This whole wolf reintroduction scheme was sold with marketing hype and tree-hugger dreams—but guess who’s footing the bill? Hint: it ain’t your Whole Foods crowd thumbing their reusable tote bags. No compensation matches full loss. No predator fences help with destruction already done. And worst of all? When real human beings cry foul, CPW channels their inner DMV clerk: smiles faintly and says “sorry, we don’t do lethal control here.”
Let me be even clearer than wolf tracks in fresh powder: wildlife management by public opinion is dumber than TikTok influencers trying to explain inflation. Wolves have a role—but putting them back in grazing territory because eco-voters thought it would be “beautiful”? That doesn’t make sense unless you’re sipping organic chai inside a Tesla charging station. This isn’t Yellowstone—it’s Jackson County—and out here, bad policy bites harder than any predator ever could.
Rural Coloradans didn’t ask for this mess, but they’re stuck cleaning it up with zero help from the state that caused it. Enough is enough—either CPW steps up or get ready for more “unexpected consequences” of ballot-box biology run amok.
