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Wildlife officials aim to keep Colorado’s wolves from meeting the endangered Mexican wolf. Is separation the right goal?

Colorado signed first-of-their kind agreements with neighboring states to relocate wandering wolves

A female Mexican gray wolf
A female Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge on Dec. 7, 2011, in New Mexico. (Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan/ Associated Press file)
DENVER, CO - NOVEMBER 8:  Elise Schmelzer - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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The Mexican gray wolf subspecies has made a significant recovery in the American Southwest over the last 25 years, but government biologists now worry that the reintroduction of the larger northern gray wolf in Colorado could derail that effort, should the two populations mix.
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