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EDUCATION
SHARED UNDERSTANDING
Photo Credit: National Park Service
We offer experience- and science-based information to our communities about the ecological benefits of wolves, wolf biology, and living and recreating with wolves on the shared landscape.
Learning from ranchers as they describe their ranch operation in northern Colorado, September 2022.
During Bear Dance Weekend 2019, we helped organize and host an event celebrating the donation of wolf photos to the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum.
![In Durango on Earth Day 2022, we presented information on the ecological benefits of wolves to our planet’s landscapes.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62e87ebe619f2c2c9c49d907/a8bbab63-ce72-405e-b49b-f306a253ba91/education-booth-at-earth-day-2022.jpg)
In Durango on Earth Day 2022, we presented information on the ecological benefits of wolves to our planet’s landscapes.
In 2018, we organized and helped host the Durango Wolf Symposium at Ft. Lewis College, and at the Southern Ute Museum.
![Colorado’s abundant elk population will provide wolves with what is their overwhelmingly preferred prey in the Rocky Mountains. Photo Credit: National Park Service](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62e87ebe619f2c2c9c49d907/c94532c2-5669-47b9-ba00-81e41dd079c8/education-wolves-chase-bull-elk.jpeg)
Colorado’s abundant elk population will provide wolves with what is their overwhelmingly preferred prey in the Rocky Mountains. Photo Credit: National Park Service
![We studied the remains of a pronghorn antelope killed by wolves in Colorado's wolf country, 2022.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62e87ebe619f2c2c9c49d907/8fd49a3a-55d2-420e-9f60-f7a3c87bd550/education-wolf-country.jpeg)
We studied the remains of a pronghorn antelope killed by wolves in Colorado's wolf country, 2022.
Mule deer, like all members of the deer family, are prey for wolves. Like healthy elk, healthy deer can outrun wolves and can kill wolves in self-defense. Photo Credit: J. Bader