Many humans experience tremendous conflict with animals, both wild and domestic. At Mission: Wolf, we teach basic body language and animal behavior in an effort to help improve human-animal relationships. Developing an understanding of how to interact with animals is key to our peaceful coexistence.
"5 star experience!" -Pueblo Centennial AP Science group
"In a word, our experience was phenomenal. The location is amazing. We were able to work hard every day on projects that had meaningful impact on the sanctuary. The staff was supportive, responsive, and accommodating to our needs." -The Road Less Traveled
"Great work opportunity for kids!"-Mountain Park Environmental
"It was great to work toward this amazing cause! We worked harder in one day than in the past two weeks! We learned so much about wolves and your mission to educate, and we will try to educate others as well now." -Girl Scout Troop1568
Mission: Wolf is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational wolf sanctuary in the remote Colorado mountains. We focus on sustainability, operate on solar power, and build with recycled materials. Our community of volunteers from around the world invites you to visit us. We connect people with nature using hands-on experiential education. Through volunteer internships and our education programs, we inspire individuals to become stewards of the earth. While providing a home for rescued wolves and horses, we create opportunities for growth through community service and personal interactions with animals. We value education, sustainability, and improving relationships between people, animals, and the world around them.
Mission: Wolf was created by the need to provide shelter for captive wolves and allow humans a chance to understand them. In 1984, our co-founder Kent Weber was licensed to take care of a captive wolf in need of shelter. By 1986, Kent and his partner had started to take in other people's former pet wolves that the owners were no longer able to care for. To give these animals a safe place away from people, he moved to Mission: Wolf's current location in the remote foothills of the Wet Mountains in Southern Colorado.
Kent was frustrated with the rat race and understood that humanity needed to be more sustainable. He hoped to build a sustainable house on the land he had purchased, which was south-facing, had its own water source, and was next to public land. However, the more we got involved with rescuing captive wolves, the more we recognized how many thousands of animals are killed every year. We took in a second and third, until finally we had 52 wolves.
Meanwhile, a science teacher invited us to take a wolf into her classroom. After we gave a brief presentation, she exclaimed that 20 minutes with a wolf in the room got more across to her students than her past 3 months of teaching.
By 1988, the plans to build a residence were discarded and the land was placed in the wolves' name. Also in 1988, the entire operation was incorporated as an educational non-profit organization. Our ultimate goal is to render facilities like ours obsolete and see wild wolves back in the forest. Trapped in the middle of nowhere and working frantically to build the facility at 3:00 AM in the middle of winter, someone declared that the entire thing was "Mission Impossible." The name Mission: Wolf came out and stuck.
Organization name
Mission: Wolf
other names
M:W
1988
Tax id (EIN)
74-2489879
Category
Animal-Related
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
PO Box 1211Other
80 Sheep Creek Road #1211Other
13388 CR 634Custer County, CO, US
Huerfano County, CO, US