The announcement from Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday came three months after the Trump administration blocked Colorado’s original plan to capture a second batch of wolves in British Columbia and fly them to the state.

Though it's winter in Yellowstone National Park, the fight for survival is still running as hot as ever. There’s likely not an animal that’s better at the long game than the wolf, especially when it comes to wintertime at Yellowstone National Park.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has given up on its hopes of releasing another batch of reintroduced wolves into the state this winter, in a potential setback to the voter-mandated reintroduction

Colorado wildlife officials confirmed that the Colville Tribes in Washington declined to serve as a source population for wolves this winter.