Trinity, I could have made 50 comments while you were talking. You have a special, awesome, incredible talent for asking good questions and knowing what to ask. And your knowledge and experience make for a great video!!! I totally enjoy watching your work!

If Colorado is anything like Idaho, the people that reintroduced the wolves won't spend a dime of their own money to manage them, that burden is on Ranchers and Fish and Game, good luck!

ChrisOConnor is one of those wolves. He’s on a computer somewhere trying to run interference for his kind. Pay him no mind. He’d eat you without a second thought.

Also kinda funny that the last wolf in Colorado (for a while) was named “Lefty”.  Think about it.

Commented earlier, but this video has really bugged me of city folk impacting country folk. Maybe our school kids should take week long field trips to the opposite of what they are living. Not only to understand the other side but to appreciate what they have.

I live in Northern Australia and farmers and cattlemen here deal with Dingoes, but not on the scale that the northern plains ranchers are having to deal with the Wolves issues.
The old question pops up again, why are animal lovers who live in cities with their pet cats and dogs get to decide what is best for ranchers and folks working out of sight under tough circumstances to bring them prime beef, and now must deal with a whole new problem, wolves.

The regular people in Colorado  no longer has a voice. We're controlled by outsiders.

Its a sad thing that ranchers and farmers dont have a voice.  i am an elk hunter and Id love to go to his ranch and hunt , he's just a good man .

Thanks for visiting our Colorado ranches.
This will be a great reference to go back to in a few years when shtf
I haven't even seen a rabbit in two years.

Thank you for bringing this to light Trinity, we have so many ignorant voters.

My Dad was a young man in Colorado back in the 30s and 40s  . He had  lots of  wolf stories from his  young  life.  He was a cowboy/ Rancher around  Rifle,  and the  eastern  slope. 😢  Trap  and  hunt.The original  wolves  were  hunted and  trapped OUT  for a  Good reason.

I grew up in WI they re introduced wolves back in the eco system residents had worried of attacks and the old wolves are more scared of you bull shit came out. Let me tell you of 2 instances that I read about on WI hunting forums but first the dnr only writes up a report of an attack on a human only if it actually puts teeth into you but the two stories are scary and true as I've read about them. Story one was a guy scouting a new area to him for bow deer season he had a small pistol on him either a 380 or ,9mm the caliber I can't recall but a pack surrounded him and came in at him he was able to walk towards his vehicle but it was some ways away from him he wounded one or two enough to get to his vehicle 2 nr story was rifle deer season opener a man and young son the father sat his son down and walked a short distance away but son called him back because wolves came in at him the father shot at the ground to scare them away but they only backed off and again they left and reported it but dnr wouldn't put out as a attack because it would contradict what they told residents and give factual written proof wolves not only attack people but decimate a deer herd. Instead of allowing longer deer rifle seasons to keep population low and deer waste disease low this was the bs answer from the state. There was a REASON OUR ANCESTORS KILLED THE WOLVES OFF.

They say there’s about 650 wolves in northern Michigan which I call BS on the real number is probably closer to 1000, with 200+ packs.

Another excellent video interview with real nice folks Trinity. With each of these my heart goes out to them for the hard work & turmoil they endure in their profession of producing excellent food products for the rest of society, most of whom have no idea the risks that ranchers take.

2 years ago I was able to spend most the fall hunting. My hunting is northern wisconsin.  I saw 7 wolves across the county I hunt. We were run and gun rattling for bucks during the run. By the second weekend one of us had a bow and the other an AR for defense.  We switched off one on the rifle rattling and the other staked out with the bow. We saw more wolf tracks than coyote.  We saw more wolf tracks than deer. I went into those same areas this year and saw little to no deer tracks and fresh wolf and coyote tracks everywhere. Few hunters. In fact that's why I hit the public areas, no one is hunting them, not like they used to. Hunting licenses are down cause people don't see deer and feel it a waste of time after years without deer. I see wolves in my neighborhood year round. All over my community there are wolves spotted, pets missing, less deer, less hunters, less commerce, less money. Same issue in my state, the uneducated aristocrats in capital city deciding what's best for rural areas they know nothing about.

People who HAVE extensive experience, managing land and animals, should be the only people who manage state lands.

Wolves are starting to show up in Nebraska now.  The game and parks refuses to admit they are here.  Our mountain lion numbers are also starting to grow rapidly.  I live in the northeast corner of the state.  I know we have a breeding pair here yet the game and parks say we don't.  I have seen the trail cam pictures of a female with her cubs the last 2 years.  The farmer I work for caught a cat on cam walking across his driveway late this past fall.  When I confronted a parks person about it and showed him the picture he just said, oh that's just a cat traveling thru.  Yet in that area it has been seen for 2 months now.  Did you hear about the cat that was hit on the road near the twin cities in MN that came from western Nebraska.  Trinity I love the info you are putting out there.  Keep up the great work.  There is so much more info I could tell you about how pathetic our game and parks is here in Nebraska it's not even funny.

From a previous story you done. The part that hit me was that Wolves kill year round no season.

Wolves disappeared the first time for a reason,,,

We have a small cow calf ranch in NM, 26 years if sporadic wolf occupation and full time since 2018.  Tallied up my costs to stop and or mitigate the depredations and it’s an extra 25k a year easily. Before depredation.  We have pretty much the same homestead based small ranch as depicted in the first video. Dog food fuel vehicle, camp equipment trail cams batteries oh my gosh the batteries, dog tracking and training equipment, and still, our costs aren’t included in any bill for funding.  We are not counting my time, averaging 20 hours a week.

Here in Wyoming they practice the three “S’s” of conversation.
Shoot
Shovel
Shutup