Colorado wolf killed by Wildlife Services in Wyoming following sheep kills [Video]

DENVER — A gray wolf brought to Colorado from Canada as part of the second round of reintroductions was killed by Wildlife Services in Wyoming after it was found at a property where multiple sheep had been killed earlier that day, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Thursday morning.

CPW said its biologists received a mortality alert from the collar of a male wolf on March 16. It had died in north-central Wyoming.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Wyoming had been conducting work to mitigate livestock depredation after multiple livestock losses in the state, CPW added, but said they could not otherwise comment on wildlife operations outside Colorado. Denver7 reached out to APHIS, and a spokesperson explained that Wildlife Services responded to a sheep predation on March 15 on private land.

“Evidence consistent with wolf depredation was observed at …