Article by Allen Best Wildlife – May 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine LYNX are running free in Colorado once again. The first lynx to be released — in what has become a controversial reintroduction plan — scrambled across the snow south of Creede on February 3rd. Yet by all admissions, little is known about lynx in Colorado. “Any assumptions you make regarding lynx habitat in Colorado is pure speculation,” wrote state wildlife biologist Tom Beck in an internal memo. “We don’t know squat about the lynx,” wrote another biologist. “This is a big-risk undertaking,’ says Jasper Carlton of the reintroduction.…
