Wildlife officials release five gray wolves on public land in northwestern Colorado on December 18, 2023. | Jerry Neal/Colorado Parks and Wildlife On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of northwestern Colorado in front of a handful of large metal crates. With a small crowd watching them, the officials began to unlatch the crate doors one by one. Out of each came a gray wolf — arguably the nation’s most controversial endangered species.  This was a massive moment for conservation.  While gray wolves once ranged throughout much of the Lower...

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