Colorado wolf depredations: Canadian wolf dies | News [Video]

Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Thursday that one of the male wolves brought to Colorado in January from British Columbia has died.

The wolf was killed by staff associated with the US Department of Agriculture after it was suspected of killing five sheep in north-central Wyoming, according to a spokesperson for the department’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

Tanya Espinosa, a public affairs specialist for APHIS, said that on March 15, USDA’s Wildlife Services responded to a sheep predation event on private lands in north central Wyoming.

“Evidence consistent with wolf depredation was observed at the site, including wolf tracks,  struggle sites, carcasses with premortem hemorrhaging, and bite marks consistent with known wolf predations.  In total, five adult sheep were killed by an adult wolf, including one sheep that was heavily fed upon.”

Later that day, “Wildlife Services removed (killed) a wolf at the predation location. Closer examination …