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A Larimer County wolf sanctuary will be able to keep four half-acre pens on two conditions: the sanctuary owner pay the $82.50 building permit and the pens remain free of wolves.
The county reached the agreement today with Wolves Offered Life and Friendship, or WOLF, which operates the sanctuary in Rist Canyon northwest of Fort Collins. The county previously had said the unpermitted fences must come down by Friday.
The county denied a request by the sanctuary to grow beyond its five-acre border last year. WOLF has filed a lawsuit to challenge that decision.
WOLF co-founder Frank Wendland said last weekend that the new fencing would eventually allow the sanctuary to expand beyond the 30-wolf limit its county permit now allows.
