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The red wolf (Canis rufus) is a canine native to the southeastern United States.Its size is intermediate between the coyote (Canis latrans) and gray wolf (Canis lupus).. The red wolf's taxonomic classification as being a separate species has been contentious for nearly a century, being classified either as a subspecies of the gray wolf Canis lupus rufus, or a coywolf (a genetic admixture of ...
Wolf Creek Pass is a high mountain pass on the Continental Divide, in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. It is the route through which U.S. Highway 160 passes from the San Luis Valley into southwest Colorado on its way to New Mexico and Arizona. The pass is notable as inspiration of a C. W. McCall song. The pass is significantly steep on ...
A coywolf is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes ( Canis latrans ), eastern wolves ( Canis lycaon ), gray wolves ( Canis lupus ), and dogs ( Canis familiaris ). All of these species are members of the genus Canis with 78 chromosomes; they therefore can interbreed. [1] One genetic study indicates that these species genetically diverged ...
The Red Wolf Recovery Program made history as the first effort to reintroduce a large carnivore that had been declared extinct in the wild in the U.S. Eight red wolf pups, less than 2 weeks old ...
In the 1940s, the gray wolf was nearly eradicated from the Southern Rockies. The species naturally expanded into habitats in Colorado they occupied prior to its near extirpation from the conterminous United States. Wolves were reintroduced in the northern Rocky Mountains in the 1990s and since at least 2014, solitary wolves have entered ...
Wolf Creek Ski Area (WCSA) is a ski area in southwest Colorado, located on the Wolf Creek Pass between Pagosa Springs and South Fork.It is best known for receiving more average annual snowfall than any other resort in Colorado, at about 430 inches per year.
Red Mountain Pass: 11,018 feet ... Wolf Creek Pass: 10,857 feet 3,309 m 6.8% Asphalt ... Colorado Travel Map; Colorado highway conditions;
The idea of wolf reintroduction was first brought to Congress in 1966 by biologists who were concerned with the critically high elk populations in Yellowstone and the ecological damages to the land from excessively large herds. Officially, 1926 was when the last wolves were killed within Yellowstone’s boundaries.