On December 18, 2023, five gray wolves from Oregon were released in Grand County, Colorado — marking the first time since the 1940s that wolves have been reintroduced on state lands.
As with any monumental event in conservation, in my Twitter sphere, I was attentive to the influx of tweets regarding the wolves’ reintroduction. Debates from animal rights activists and local ranchers reflect the complexity of the situation, with many Twitter users voicing their concern about the wolves’ reintroduction. Conservationists, too, were savvy to the wolves, with some cheering for this progression in ecological reintroduction and others commenting on the pending human-wildlife conflict implications.