LAMAR, Colo. – The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) is looking for land to lease in southeast Colorado for the 2009 hunting seasons. The DOW’s Big Game Access Program (BGAP) is in the third year of a three-year pilot program.
This pilot is focused on deer and pronghorn hunting on private lands in the following Game [...]
January 31, 2009 | Posted in
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DENVER, Colo. – The Colorado Wildlife Commission approved big game season regulations for the 2009 seasons Monday, during its regular January meeting. These regulations include annual big game hunting season dates, the application and drawing process, Game Management Unit boundaries, manner of take provisions and other management policies for deer, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, moose [...]
January 15, 2009 | Posted in
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Warmer than average temperatures and lack of snow continue to hamper elk hunter efforts along the Rocky Mountain Front.
“The number of elk brought through the Augusta check station is down by over half as compared to the 10-year average,” says Brent Lonner, Fish, Wildlife and Parks wildlife biologist.
So far this season, hunters have brought in [...]
November 24, 2008 | Posted in
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General turkey-hunting seasons are closed for the year, but hunters and anglers still have plenty of opportunities to contribute to the Thanksgiving Day feast in the days ahead.
The late buck season – already under way in Eastern Washington – gets started tomorrow (Nov. 13) on the west side of the Cascades for deer hunters using [...]
November 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Seasons Open Nov. 15; Allegany Bear Season Opens Nov. 22
A major change to expand big-game hunting to 14- and 15-year-olds highlights the upcoming opening of the 2008 Southern Zone regular deer and the Catskill and Allegany bear seasons, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis announced today.
Earlier this year, Governor David [...]
November 10, 2008 | Posted in
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While deer archery hunters are already afield hunting, hunters await the opening of the 2008 deer muzzleloader season slated for Oct. 25.
Muzzleloader season spans nine days (Oct. 25 – Nov. 2). The modern gun season opens Nov. 22 and runs for 16 days. Archery season remains open through Jan. 15, 2009.
From wide-open prairie to pine-covered [...]
October 13, 2008 | Posted in
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The weeklong primitive weapons deer-hunting season begins Saturday, Oct. 11. During the primitive weapons season, hunters may use archery equipment (including crossbows), muzzleloading shotguns (20 gauge or larger) and muzzleloading firearms (.44 caliber or larger).
Last year, more than 61,000 muzzleloader hunters harvested approximately 16,133 deer, increasing both the number of hunters and the number of [...]
October 6, 2008 | Posted in
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CHEYENNE– Resident and nonresident moose and bighorn sheep hunters and nonresident elk, deer and antelope hunters are reminded that the preference point only application deadline is 5 p.m. Sept. 30.
Preference points are available for qualifying big game hunters who did not apply for a moose or bighorn sheep license this year and nonresident elk, deer [...]
September 22, 2008 | Posted in
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On September 8, Alaska became the 30th state to join the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact (IWVC) in a cooperative effort to protect the nation’s wildlife resources.
Founded in 1989 by charter states Colorado, Oregon and Nevada, the IWVC is a multi-state program that provides law enforcement agencies greater authority and improved resources to enforce wildlife regulations [...]
September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife will hold a deer and elk management planning meeting at the Creede Community Center at 6:30 p.m., Oct. 2.
At the meeting DOW big game managers will discuss 10-year management alternatives for deer in Game Management Units 76, 79, and 791; and elk in GMUs 76 and 79. These GMUs include [...]
September 19, 2008 | Posted in
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