Category: Colorado News
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CPW Seeks Elk Sharpshooting Volunteers | Colorado
We’d like our chapter members to apply to participate in this conservation project. Please pass the information along or apply as you see fit. CPW seeks sharpshooting volunteers for elk management project in the San Luis Valley MONTE VISTA, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is in search of qualified volunteers to assist with the second…
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January Legislative Update | Colorado
HPPRepresentatives Perry Will and Dylan Roberts and Senators Jonathan Cooke and Cleave Simpson will introduce a bill to reauthorize the Habitat Partnerships Program (HPP). The bill will permanently authorize the funding mechanism of the HPP with some statutory changes. This bill should be introduced early and will be moving quickly. Four Corners SCI is not…
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CPW Commission Considers Requiring Archery Hunters to Wear Orange this Hunting Season | Colorado
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission is currently taking public comment from hunters on the consideration of requiring archery hunters to wear fluorescent orange vests this upcoming season. Four Corners SCI is not responsible for links that take you away from our website. This has come to the commission as there was an archery hunter…
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Wolf Introduction Process Update | Colorado
This information is provided to sportsmen representatives by Reid DeWalt, Assistant Director for Wildlife and Natural Resources for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) and the Technical Working Group (TWIG) met in early December. For the most part, the meeting was in person, and the group had one out-of-state participant from the…
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First Wolf Kill Reported in Colorado
This news was reported by The Denver Post Colorado voters last year narrowly chose to reintroduce wolves into the state’s forests — and this week may have brought the first wolf-related livestock fatality in decades. The Colorado Cattlemen’s Association says a 500-pound heifer was found dead in Walden after being attacked and eaten by a…
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CPW Commission Denies Petition to Ban Trapping | Colorado
[Denver, Colo, March 17, 2021] The Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission met for the first day of the two-day March meetings and addressed a Citizen’s Petition submitted by the Humane Society of the United States(HSUS), which aimed to ban all trapping. The Commission heard HSUS and anti-trapping advocates’ presentations, then listened to comment from…
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Proposition 114 Update | Colorado
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission met for the first time in 2021. Due to health restrictions, the meeting occurred via Zoom and required an advanced application for live comment. During this session the Commission began the planning and implementation of wolves into Colorado due to Proposition 114. Proposition 114 gives CPW until December…
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GOVERNOR DECLARES WAR ON WESTERN COLORADO
Action Needed: Tell Wildlife Commissioners Not to Rush Wolf Introduction The message below was received from Farm Bureau. Last night Governor Polis announced his intention to rush wolf introduction, and place wolves on the ground in Colorado ahead of the deadline set by the passage of Prop 114! Not simply satisfied with a win at the…
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SCIF Supported Colorado Mountain Lion Research Applied in New Management Plan
Nearly a decade after Colorado Parks & Wildlife (CPW) initiated a research project on mountain lions, the results are being applied in the state’s new species management plan. Safari Club International Foundation supported this research in the Uncompahgre Plateau back in the early 2000s. The CPW just recently published the results in a technical report “Effects of…
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Wolf Ballot Measure Lacks Funding in Colorado’s Ravaged Economy
Wolf Proponents Urged to Withdraw Ballot Measure DENVER, Colo. – June 17, 2020 – Numerous stakeholders in Colorado are urging proponents of Initiative 107—a ballot measure that would force the introduction of gray wolves in Colorado—to withdraw the measure due to repeated credible wolf sightings and Colorado’s economic fragility. The economic consequences of COVID-19 are tearing…