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Colorado’s new wolf conservation manager inherits a growing program — and a lot of uncertainty

Coloradosun · · 882 words · By Tracy Ross
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Wildlife advocates hope Colorado’s new wolf conservation manager can restart a stalled program that has seen increasing conflicts with ranchers and is restricted from importing wolves into the state.

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What happened

Wildlife advocates hope Colorado’s new wolf conservation manager can restart a stalled program that has seen increasing conflicts with ranchers and is restricted from importing wolves into the state.

Why it matters

Matthew Hyde has been selected by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to replace Eric Odell, the career Parks and Wildlife biologist who ushered in Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program after voters approved it in 2020.

Common ground

Hyde, who spent two years studying the relationship between wolves and people as a postdoctoral fellow with the California Wolf Project through University of California Berkeley’s wildlife program, began work overseeing Colorado’s program this week.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Matthew Hyde has been selected by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to replace Eric Odell”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Matthew Hyde was appointed as the new wolf conservation manager for CPW, replacing the retired Eric Odell.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge ( BOH-skay del ə-PATCH-ee, Spanish: [ˈboske ðel aˈpatʃe]; "Woodland of the Apache") is a National Wildlife Refuge located in southern New Mexico. It wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosque_del_Apache_National_Wil…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/6…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of human deaths caused by bear attacks in North America by decade in reverse chronological order. These fatalities have been documented through news media, reports, cause-of-death stati…
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Claim 2: “In January, director Brian Nesvik demanded a full accounting of CPW’s actions from the start of the program”
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The search results for 'Director' provide general definitions of the word but do not mention Brian Nesvik or a request for accounting of the wolf program in January.
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web search NEUTRAL — Television director, the person who directs different types of television programs. Theatre director, the person in charge of deciding how a stage play should be performed.
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web search NEUTRAL — A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film 's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of tha…
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web search NEUTRAL — A company director is one of the employees within a group of managers who maintains a prolific role within an organization and usually has the higher role within an organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_(business)
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Claim 3: “In October 2025, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service blocked CPW from importing gray wolves from British Columbia”
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The claim states the USFWS 'blocked' CPW from importing wolves in October 2025. However, evidence shows that CPW actually succeeded in importing 15 wolves from British Columbia in early January 2025.
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web search NEUTRAL — The northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf, Alaskan timber wolf, or Canadian timber wolf, is a subspecies of gray wolf in western North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_wolf
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web search NEUTRAL — In the current 2025-26 fiscal year, CPW was given $264,238 from the state’s general fund to bring 15 wolves from British Columbia to Colorado.Tagged: Colorado Parks and Wildlife, CPW, gray wolf reintr…
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/16/lawmakers-pass-a-note-to-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In early January 2025, CPW imported 15 wolves from British Columbia, Canada, and released them in Colorado's western slope. Joe Biden was president when this happened. The state had an agreement to im…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colorado-parks-wildlife-…
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Claim 4: “voters approved it [Colorado’s wolf reintroduction program] in 2020”
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Multiple sources confirm that Colorado voters approved Proposition 114 in November 2020 to reintroduce wolves.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, and part of the Southwestern United States, sharing the Four Corners regio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado City is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The CDP is a part of the Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The Color…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado Springs is a home rule city that is the county seat of and the most populous city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The city had a population of 478,961 at the 2020 census, a 15.02%…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Springs,_Colorado
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Claim 5: “On July 22, CPW confirmed the successful reproduction of three existing wolf packs and the formation of a new pack — Piney Ridge — all with litters ranging between four and six pups”
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Claim 6: “Phil Weiser and Republican Victor Marx, are noncommittal on the future of wolves in Colorado”
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Claim 7: “in April, with a request for public comment on how the agency is implementing its mandate to protect livestock from the predators”
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While there is evidence of public comments and rancher requests regarding wolf reintroduction, there is no specific evidence confirming a request for public comment in April specifically regarding the livestock protection mandate implementation.
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web search NEUTRAL — Petitioners requested CPW halt wolf releases until the agency could oblige several requests from ranchers, including offering free site assessments, launching a range rider program, employing a rapid …
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web search NEUTRAL — The proposed rule is now available for public review and is intended to accommodate the state of Colorado’s gray wolf reintroduction planned for late 2023.State intends to reintroduce the species in a…
https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2023-02/public-invited-com…
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Claim 8: “Frontier Airlines christened one of its signature aircraft animals after him — Odell the Lynx”
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The provided evidence for Frontier Airlines discusses general company history and flight services, but contains no mention of an aircraft animal named 'Odell the Lynx'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charlotte Douglas International Airport (IATA: CLT, ICAO: KCLT, FAA LID: CLT) is an international airport serving Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, located roughly six miles (9.7 km) west of t…
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Claim 9: “Hyde, who spent two years studying the relationship between wolves and people as a postdoctoral fellow with the California Wolf Project through University of California Berkeley’s wildlife program”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that Matthew Hyde spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with the California Wolf Project at UC Berkeley studying human-wolf relationships.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Hyde Pierce (born David Pierce; April 3, 1959) is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, he received four Primetime E…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo mexicano (or, simply, lobo) is a subspecies of gray wolf (C. lupus) native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern N…
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Claim 10: “in May, Odell told the Parks and Wildlife Commission he could not provide them with an estimate of when, if ever, wolves would be fully reestablished in the state”
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Claim 11: “Hyde studied carnivore-livestock conflicts through the Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence at Colorado State University”
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Claim 12: “Odell, who retired last week after 26 years with CPW”
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Multiple sources confirm Eric Odell's retirement from CPW after more than two and a half decades (approx 26 years).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colorado is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Mountain states, and part of the Southwestern United States, sharing the Four Corners regio…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 2, 2016, an armed group of right-wing activists seized and performed an adverse occupation of the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, and continue…
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Claim 13: “his agency dealt with nearly 200 confirmed livestock losses to 12 packs of wolves in 2025 compared with Washington, which had 17 confirmed losses to 48 packs of wolves”
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