Colorado Parks and Wildlife received another possible wolf depredation report in Grand County on Sunday.

The wildlife agency said in a statement provided to the newspaper that CPW staff were in the area conducting a field investigation and, if confirmed, the kill would be included in an update to a new Gray Wolf Depredation Report website that can be found on CPW.state.co.

The incident, if confirmed, would be at least the seventh reported wolf depredation in Colorado in the month of April.

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The reported depredation over the weekend comes roughly a week after state wildlife officials confirmed April 17 that a wolf, or wolves, caused the deaths of four cattle on a ranch in Grand County — and said that one or more of the 10 wolves that were released in Colorado in December were in the area at the time of those incidents.

Earlier this month, authorities reported a wolf killed a calf in Grand County on April 2 and another calf was killed around April 7 in Jackson County, according to CPW.

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The state wildlife agency reimburses individuals for damages caused by gray wolves to livestock and livestock guard animals under a policy whereby livestock producers must submit a claim to be eligible for compensation for the fair market value of their livestock lost to confirmed wolf depredations.

Despite the reimbursement promise, local ranchers have expressed concerns over the wolf reintroduction effort, which began Dec. 18 with the release of 10 wolves transported from Oregon.

CPW officials held a meeting with the ranching community at the end of February in Steamboat Springs at a time when no depredation cases involving an attack by an introduced gray wolf on livestock in Colorado had been reported.

At the meeting, CPW Area Manager Kris Middledorf said a major challenge for the agency is to “maintain relationships with our landowners and our partners across Western Colorado — they provide a tremendous amount of habitat for wildlife where they thrive and they have been our partners for decades.”

“We know it’s a stressful situation for them, and for us, and we really want to walk through this together and be successful and be partners down the road as well,” Middledorf added.

CPW does not share specific data point information on the wolves’ locations with landowners, but releases general information monthly with maps showing the watersheds where the animals have roamed.

Last week, the wildlife agency’s latest map showed the collared wolves’ movement extended to watersheds east of the Continental Divide and into the Front Range, with continued activity detected in the Eagle River Valley watershed.

CPW released 10 gray wolves relocated from Oregon onto public land in Summit and Grand Counties in December. All of those wolves, along with two male wolves captured in the North Park area of Colorado in February 2023, wear collars allowing the wildlife agency to track their whereabouts.

According to the CPW April 24 report, only nine of the 12 collared wolves wore devices that were working.

“The animals with the failed collars are traveling with other animals with functional collars, which currently allows CPW to monitor those animals,” Colorado Parks and Wildlife said in the April 24 report.

Alongside the reports of the recent wolf depredations in April, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials confirmed last week the death of one of the 10 reintroduced wolves relocated from Oregon in December.

The wolf carcass, found in Larimer County, was reported to the agency on April 18. The agency is conducting an autopsy to confirm the cause of death and did not provide additional details.

“Initial evidence suggests that this wolf likely died of natural causes,” a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesperson said.

Reporters Meg Soyars Van Hauen, Elliot Wenzler and Zoe Goldstein contributed to this article.