Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Judge rejects challenge to Colorado wildlife officials’ plan to kill black bears and mountain lions
Judge Robert McGahey, Jr., ruled that Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists can continue with plans to cull mountain lions and black bears from the Piceance and Upper Arkansas River basins
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Coloradans will decide in 2020 whether to reintroduce gray wolves in the state
By The Associated Press Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
Coyotes figured out how to survive in the city. Can urban Coloradans learn to coexist?
By Kevin Simpson Growth Primary category in which blog post is published
Wolf supporters say they gathered 200,000 signatures, enough for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot
By Jason Blevins Outdoors Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado is owed 9,900 acres by the federal government. But getting that land could mean no more recreating on it.
By Jason Blevins Outdoors Primary category in which blog post is published
Report: Sage-grouse recovery in Colorado, Utah to cost millions and take years
Colorado Parks and Wildlife estimates the bird's population at more than 3,000, primarily in Colorado's Gunnison Basin
People are effectively training bears to get into trouble, and Colorado wildlife officials are sick of it
From a new way of tracking incidents to more-assertive forms of hazing, frustrated CPW officers are trying to change bears’ behavior because humans are reluctant to change theirs
Trump’s “energy dominance” push changing plans for 3 million acres of Colorado land, local stewards say
State and local agencies -- and more recently, Gov. Jared Polis -- prioritized conservation during years of public input and discussion. Now those objectives are in jeopardy.
A massive ranch in Trinidad is officially Colorado’s newest state park thanks to innovative partnerships
Fishers Peak is set to become 42nd state park with promise of outdoor recreation, conservation and economic development
Could Colorado see the return of grizzlies, wolves and wild bison? Here’s how Montanans coexist with them.
Up north, grizzlies are roaming in places they haven’t been in decades and there are enough wolves that hunters are allowed to shoot five apiece
A fungus threatens survival of the only toads that live high in the Rocky Mountains
Biologists devised a treatment they hope will save the boreal toad, but first they must catch the tiny creatures to determine if their plan will work
Could a massive southern Colorado ranch become a state park? It’s an idea just “crazy” enough to work.
The City of Trinidad, The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, GOCO and Colorado Parks and Wildlife are fine-tuning a plan to turn the 19,200-acre Crazy French Ranch into a new economic engine.
Technicolor explosion of wildflowers springs from epic snowpack in Colorado’s high country
We have some ideas where to find the humdinger of a flower show, from the Eastern Plains on west. But please don't call it a "super bloom. "
