Attend Sportsmen's Day at the Capitol & Get Latest on an Anti-Hunting Ballot Measure
With so many prominent issues to be decided the final month of Colorado’s legislative session, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation would like to invite you to Sportsmen’s Day at the Capitol on Thursday...
Call or email your senator this weekend and encourage them to vote 'No' on the anti-hunting appointees.
Type your zip code into the Search field on this site and you will get their contact info: https://leg.colorado.gov/FindMyLegislator...
Today, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) released its preliminary alternatives and staff recommendations for the 2025-2029 Big Game Season Structure (BGSS). Over the past year, CPW carefully considered various biological, social, and economic factors, as well as internal and external input...
The Mtn Lion briefing is especially good. These may have been shared in another thread, but not many people read past the 3rd or 4th page of replies, so I wanted to have this as a separate informational thread:
20 minute Mtn Lion Update - 20 mins with tons of great details and well presented...
I attended today, but unfortunately was distracted with my job during much of the meeting. A few notes:
Commissioners Haskett and Philips were pretty pissed about not being notified about the wolf releases. They spent countless hours, attended dozens of meetings, got beat up from both sides...
My daughter (19) and I had archery elk tags, and my son (22) had a muzzleloader cow tag, and my wife was with, but doesn't hunt. We hiked in about 6 miles and set up camp. We saw elk across the valley as we were setting up. As my son and I made our way down and back up the other side of the...
I'm reading an old story (in a collection of short stories) about a Canadian Mounty. He's describing one of their cabins they maintained for the mounties to use when out patrolling. The quote is, "There had been nobody stationed in it since the T-Down fed its last hay almost two months...
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If we want any bighorns left on the landscape, I think we need our federal agencies to implement and enforce separation of domestic and wild sheep.
I have a neighbor that lets their dog out at 3:30am and of course it barks non-stop. By the time I wake up and realize what is going on and get mad enough to get dressed, go outside, and record it, they let it back in. Local law enforcement won't do anything without video/audio evidence. I...
I have a friend that is working with the county/state/feds to improve the wildlife habitat on his property. Most of what they want him to do is thin the pine trees on about 8 acres of his property. The instructions they gave him (to qualify for grants) was to remove all dead trees and all...
I sent the following to the American Hunter Editor(s). To my chagrin, as I read the rest of the issue, I found an article by Jim Heffelfinger, a respected scholar on the topic, however, Jim did not address cooking or incineration in that article. I also found out that Jim had another CWD...
If you're not familiar with this project, basically what has happened is that the USFS ignored a whole bunch of illegal trail building and is now set to formally adopt the illegal trails with no regard for wildlife habitat (winter range, migration, production areas, etc). If this project goes...
Our lab is from a reputable breeder and is a stellar dog in many ways. However, she is psycho when she chases her ball and has torn her toe nails to pieces. She plays/trains on grass (snow this time of year) and not on pavement or gravel. She is almost 2 years old now and she is not growing...
I saw a video of someone shooting an AK (not sure which variant) at night and there was a lot of sparks coming out of the end of the barrel. Someone said they must have been using old Soviet steel ammo. I know some 'cheap' ammo uses steel casings, but do any of them have solid steel bullets...
I don't want to pay for the apps that allow for this kind of research, but before I go through the hassle of trying to import the data from the CPW pdf's, I wanted to see if someone already has the "Drawn Out At" data in a sortable format like Excel or knows where I can get it.
TIA
https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/new-big-game-migration-maps-support-conservation-planning-across-west
New big game migration maps support conservation planning across the West | U.S. Geological Survey
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I do most of my hunting in steep mountains miles from anywhere, but my buddy just built a house in the burbs and I had the perfect number of preference points (zero) for this particular unit, so I went for it, mostly with the thought that if the rest of my hunts don't pan out, I'll arrow a big...