The AP reports:
Colorado Division of Wildlife officials discussed reintroducing wolverines in 1999 when they reintroduced the lynx, spokesman Randy Hampton said Tuesday.
“We didn’t have the financial or human resources to do two major programs at the same time,” Hampton said. “Lynx reintroduction has been a success so the wolverine has come back around.”
…The wolverine, from the same family as the weasel, resembles a bear and weighs 55 to 70 pounds. It is noted for its incredible strength and ferocity.
It’s possible we’ve got one (or more) details of this story confused with 1980s popular culture, but there’s one thing we do know: Colorado wolverines hate Russians. And Cubans. And maybe even the Chinese.
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I would like … to feed your fingertips … to the wolverines.
Classic TV – who remembers it?
It’s the American Way.
I hope I can. I hope I can …
I know I can! I know I can…
Heart attack! Heart attack!…
Oh my God, the pain!! Oh my God, the pain!!
Mr. Mike: “I’d like to say.. it’s all very easy to laugh at yourself, the difficult thing is learning to laugh at others.”
there’s a remake in the works? No idea if this one will be set in Colorado though.
the “South Park” episode where Cartman winds up in the future where one of the warring factions is an army of river otters (too complicated to explain here – has to do with freezing himself because he can’t wait for a new game system to appear in stores) so right now I’m picturing an army of vicious cartoon wolverines. And, by the way, real wolverines certainly are scary vicious!
And yes, I admit it. I love South Park.
If Colorado budgets are so strained now to pay for higher ed and K12 and roads and stuff, how is it we can afford to reintroduce the wolverine?
What a fool.
When in doubt- do both, and even more.
If I was running for office in Colorado I’d be promising not just the wolverine, but the mastodon or whatever those giant elephant-like things were just like Jurassic Park.
Short answer to your dim witted question is they aren’t because they can’t.
We all know that there’s no end to the number of folks that will pay big money to kill something. The more rare it is, the more they’ll pay.
So, we collect $1000 from 1000 folks of that ilk. There’s your $1 million. Then, once there’s a stable population (10-20 years), hold a lottery every year drawing one or two names from the initial “investors”. The winner gets to go hunting.
$1.5 million over 10 years is a pretty cheap program, in this state.
And if lottery winner is forced to hunt wolverines just wearing a loincloth and using his bare hands then we could charge folks to watch.
Hell that’s better than TLC’s Caribou Barbie moose hunting anyday! I’d pay to watch that!!
I could think of some prey I’d be willing to hunt.
But they should.
Shift it to the feds, then our kids and grand kids can pay for it. ANd be grateful we saved the Colorado wolverine for them.
Or does the meaning of the word “or” elude you, oh dimwitted one?
when a billionaire like Peter Peterson has trouble finding a literate shill.
He’s so damn hot even I get woosey looking at him…
Grrrr…..
-1 for you too.
Eww.
Hugh Jackman – Wolverine!
Cool dude with killer claws and metal bones.
Much better then tempermental fuzzy endangered animals more likely to attack you than to save the world!
Rather hang with Hugh than with a musk sprayin’ relative of a weasel.
Not too hard on the eyes either!
Who wouldn’t
Seriously- I wouldn’t want to spend 5 seconds with Dan Maes, let alone “hang.”
Go Blue!
And a homecoming (and now fourth down) tradition.
And because you can’t have one without the other: