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Four Wild Lynx Released in Southwestern Colorado
The Colorado Division of Wildlife today released four additional wild lynx into the rugged mountains of southwestern Colorado, bringing to 208 the total number of lynx released since the program began in 1999.
This is a lynx.
At least 110 lynx kittens have been born, the first wild lynx reproduction in decades in the Southern Rockies. Despite the growing number of lynx roaming the region, however, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to entirely exclude Colorado from critical habitat protection for the lynx and the U.S. Forest Service is now years overdue on a required lynx management plan for the region. The Service plans to release ten more lynx in the coming weeks.
