It's happening as expected. The "re-introduced" wolf is migrating south from Montana, Idaho & Wyoming into Colorado. I hope Colorado can control them better than our neighbors to the north.
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Wolves have ruined hunting in Idaho and they will do the same to Colorado unless their numbers are managed through aerial wolf hunting.

Eastman's magazine reported one of the WY pack was in AZ. They are not the same as the smaller wolf that inhabited the country.

They have been here for a while. A tagged female was found dead along I 70 three maybe four years ago. There have been several credible sightings in northpark over the last few years. I have been told there is a small pack around encampment just across the WY border too.  

I recall a confirmed wolf killed by being hit by a vehicle, on I-70  some 10 or more years ago.  We also saw one about 20 years ago while elk hunting west of Cowdry.  We were only about one half mile south of the Wyoming border south of Medicine Bow National Forest.

I had a wolf pass within 25 yards of me when I hunted the San Juan Mountains in Colorado back in 2010. I saw him(or her) twice within 2 hours, once at about 40 yards and later at about 25 yards. It was the thrill of my hunt.
This is the best pic I could get of him. He was at about 40 yards here.
 

The report really chaps my hinder. . .  So it takes certified genius expert game biologists three weeks using DNA sequencing to determine if this is really truly a wolf, but the poor slob hunter, who did the right thing and called it in, had maybe ten seconds, at a distance, in a state where "there are no wolves" to make a determination, right or wrong.

Same goes with many ( maybe most, but I am certain not all) of the recent cop shootings.  Six months later the DA in all his infinite wisdom looking at all the evidence, makes a cut, while the poor cop has seconds, under duress.
ChuckC

Well said ChuckC

The alarming thing to me is that they are now in Colorado and probably in numbers.  If you value the elk and moose herds you need to take corrective action.  The elk and moose herds in all states that have uncontrolled wolves are devastated.  They need to be controlled aggressively or Colorado will be next and it won't take but a few years.

Mike

Still pending DNA results.  There are quite a few dog/wolf mix in private ownership.  Could be one of them.

The wolf huggers are lobbying hard to have the hunter charged.  Media seems to support the idea charging him.  I don't think he will be charged.  He did exactly the right thing according to law.  If PAW caves and charges him they will alienate the hunting community to the point that the three S's will have to be SOP for any sensible hunter.

SORRY!!!