The effort to reintroduce gray wolves to Colorado yielded the state’s first litter of pups, state officials confirmed this week, after video of the animals surfaced on social media.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said that video filmed on an unidentified dirt road in Grand County showed “three healthy pups” and one adult, now identified as the state’s Copper Creek pack.
The footage, filmed by Colorado resident Mike Usalavage, features the three young wolves playing in and around a puddle on a dirt road amid sun-dappled aspen trees. In a second video shared by Usalavage on his Instagram account, the pups’ mother can also be seen.
“It is a confirmation of further successful reproduction in CPW’s gray wolf reintroduction efforts in the state,” CPW spokesperson Travis Duncan told POLITICO’s E&E News.
