Eric Odell, The Man who Ran Colorado’s Wolf Reintroduction | The MeatEater Podcast Ep. 918

Steven Rinella talks with Eric Odell, the recently retired Colorado Wolf Reintroduction Manager, about politics, predation, and the realities of living with wolves.

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Chapters:
2:15 – How the Wolf Ballot Measure Passed by 2 Points
8:15 – Turning a Ballot Measure Into an Actual Plan
13:40 – Becoming "The Wolf Guy" — and the Threats That Followed
18:35 – Wild Wolves Beat the State to Colorado
24:00 – The Legal Loophole That Made Wolf Management Possible
30:30 – The Hunt for States Willing to Give Up Their Wolves
37:45 – Inside a Wolf Capture and Release
45:00 – Do Wolves Develop a Taste for Cattle?
52:10 – The Copper Creek Pack and Colorado's First Lethal Removal
59:40 – No Celebrity Wolves, and a Legal Fight Over British Columbia
64:40 – The Mexican Wolf Genetics Debate
70:20 – How Many Wolves Can Colorado Actually Hold?
80:00 – What Eric Would Change, and Wolf Advocates' Blind Spot
87:40 – Retirement, Reflection, and the Sound of a Wolf Howl