How can you help wolves?
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Many concerned folks ask, "How Can I Help Wolves?". Here's a comprehensive guide to resources and actions you can take to help wolves:
Learn About Wolves
- Read books and peer-reviewed research, watch videos from this extensive curated list
- And there's more curated publications and suggested reading at livingwithwolves.org
- Download free e-books and more at rockymountainwolfproject.org - especially the “Living With Wolves” Photographic Exhibit
- Read "American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West" by Nate Blakeslee
- Read “Decade Of The Wolf” by Doug Smith and Gary Ferguson
- Watch “How Wolves Change Rivers” with 36 million YouTube views!
- Watch the documentary movie “Medicine Of The Wolf”
- Watch the documentary movie or read the book “Living With Wolves” (DVD/Book)
- Watch the documentary movie “A Season Of Predators”
- Listen to a piece about the 06 female wolf in Yellowstone
- “Like” the “Legend Of Lamar Valley/The Valley Of Wolves” Facebook page (a community of wolf watchers from Yellowstone that post photos/videos of Yellowstone wolves, and share info on what’s going on in the world of wolves)
Join, Volunteer & Stay Current
- Join your Colorado Sierra Club and participate in your local Group meetings & events
- Indicate your volunteer interest in “wolves” here
- Volunteer with your local Colorado Sierra Club Group
- Meet your local Colorado Sierra Club Group Project Wolf Team member
- Sign-up for email updates from the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project
- Follow the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project on Facebook and their events calendar
- Sign-up for the weekly e-newsletter from the Timber Wolf Information Network
Spread The Word Everyday
- Proudly display wolf-friendly bumper stickers (esp. “Colorado Needs Wolves Need Colorado” from the Colorado Sierra Club, and “Colorado Needs Wolves” from the Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center)
- Share posts & photos from reliable, factual sources and wolf-advocacy organizations on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (one post/photo per week)
- With the help of your local Colorado Sierra Club Group Project Wolf Team member, write timely letters to your local newspaper
Engage!
- Keep track of wolf/wildlife legislation at local, state and national levels.
- Sign online petitions, join campaigns and contact legislators.
- Fight attempts to de-list wolves (all species) from the Endangered Species Act
- Fight attempts to “de-fang” the Endangered Species Act
- “Like” your local and state legislators on Facebook
- “Like” wolf-advocacy organizations on Facebook:
- Colorado Sierra Club (and your local Group), Defenders Of Wildlife, Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, Wolf Conservation Center
- Participate in wolf-advocacy marches and demonstrations
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Get Up Close And Personal
- Visit a Colorado wolf sanctuary
- Colorado Wolf And Wildlife Center in Divide
- Mission: Wolf near Westcliffe
- W.O.L.F. Sanctuary (currently private but open to the public soon)
- Wolfwood Refuge in Ignacio
- Visit a wolf sanctuary when traveling the US
- International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota
- Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York
- Wolf Haven International n Tenino, Washington
- Wolf Sanctuary Of Pennsylvania in Lititz, Pennsylvania
- Visit Yellowstone National Park & take a guided wolf discovery/photography tour (google “Yellowstone wolf tours”)
Colorado Wolf Reintroduction Spring 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision on Colorado's reintroduction of gray wolves.
The 10(j) rule under the Endangered Species Act went into effect on Dec. 8th, 2023. Under this rule, wolves will no longer be considered an endangered species in Colorado, and will be considered an experimental population. As such, they can be killed if they attack livestock and working dogs and if their predation on ungulates on tribal lands has a significant impact. Killing wolves would not be allowed if there is any evidence of baiting them. Members of our group, who care a lot about wolves, are keeping a close watch on the reintroduction process.