From GPS Signals in Western Watersheds to the Wider Story of Wolves in the United States At first glance, Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s August 2026 wolf map appears to show an enormous sweep of wolf country. Purple-shaded watersheds stretch across much of northwestern and west-central Colorado, from the state’s northern border through mountain counties and south toward the Gunnison Basin. But the map is not a wolf population map. It is not a map of occupied territory, wolf de

When Colorado voters approved the return of gray wolves to the state, they did more than authorize a wildlife-management program. They initiated an extraordinary experiment involving democracy, ecology, rural livelihoods, cultural identity, and the meaning of wilderness in modern America. Wolf Empire, an upcoming documentary written, produced, and directed by Matt Skinner, enters the center of that experiment. Against the vast landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, the film follo