Geographical Location: Central Mountain & Plains

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The Cameron Peak Fire was a massive wildfire that swept across the Colorado landscape last summer —the state’s largest fire in history. To understand the effect on elk (Cervus canadensis)...

Colorado wildlife officials are moving forward with plans to reintroduce gray wolves to the state. Colorado Parks and Wildlife plans to start identifying donor populations and reintroduction locations by this...

It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south...

More than 20 years after efforts began to restore lynx to Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, state wildlife officials say the project has been a success. Colorado Parks and Wildlife estimates...

Lizards may be able to cope with climate change by rapidly adapting to new temperatures, but not without physically slowing down. These changes in fitness might make the lizards more...

A mink in Utah has become the first confirmed case of a wild animal infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. ProMED, a program of the International Society for Infectious...

Could wolves help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease? Researchers in Yellowstone National Park are studying the “predator cleansing effect” to see what role wolves (Canis lupus) may play...

The Cameron Peak Fire is the largest wildfire in Colorado history at nearly 209,000 acres. Colorado Parks and Wildlife has 30 elk (Cervus canadensis) with GPS satellite collars in the...

Wolves, largely absent from the Colorado landscape for more than a century, will roam the state again after voters narrowly approved a ballot issue to begin reintroduction efforts. “Definitely, people...