Our license fees, tag purchases and conservation stamp funds pay most of the bills for managing wildlife and enforcing regulations. In some cases, it also locates lost toddlers and saves innocent lives.
Colorado Parks & Wildlife staff members captured 10 wolves in Oregon in December 2023, releasing them the same month in Colorado. It took only three months for biologists to confirm their first attack on livestock.
A black bear attack in the small California community of Downieville, which resulted in a woman's death, has proven to be the first such fatality in the history of the state.