Are you interested in hunting or fishing in Northwest Colorado? Perhaps you are looking to observe some of our fantastic wildlife. Wish you had a local Northwest Colorado contact to help you find the places to go?
Contact the Craig Sportsmans Information Center, located in the Moffat County Visitors Center. The staff can help you plan [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife is hosting a series of public meetings in northwest Colorado to get input on big game hunting season structure for the 2010-2014 hunting seasons. The meetings, which are being held throughout the state, are part of the public input process for the agency’s five year big game season structure.
The [...]

Colorado’s big game season structure, Division of Wildlife budget projections and an update on Rocky Mountain National Park’s elk culling effort headline the agenda for the Colorado Wildlife Commission’s February workshop in Denver.
The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 5 in the Hunter Education Building at Division of Wildlife [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) will hold two public meetings to gather public comments on the Escarpment Pronghorn herd (GMU’s 87, 88, 89, 90, 95 and 951).
January 14, 2008– 6 PM, Clarion Hotel (Regency), 701 8th Street, Greeley.
January 15, 2008 – 6 PM, Ramada Inn, 22140 East Highway 6, Sterling.
“The Escarpment pronghorn herd [...]

By Lee Lawson
Special to the Hunting guide
July 2002 found Dorie and I anxiously waiting at the Denver International Airport for our grandsons Alex, 13, and Zach, 11, to arrive from California to start our two-week vacation in our new trailer. We had asked them during the previous year where they wanted to go so we [...]

As a new natural gas drilling project is set to begin in the Garfield Creek State Wildlife area, officials of the Colorado Division of Wildlife say it is difficult to determine the effects of drilling on wildlife. In one area which has had drilling for about 10 years, the Bosque del Oso Wildlife Area, DOW [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) is continuing to closely monitor winter conditions in northwest Colorado to determine if feeding operations will become necessary for deer, elk, pronghorn and bighorn sheep.

Continuing snowfall has made conditions worse in some areas but biologists aren’t yet calling for a full-scale feeding operation as is occurring in the Gunnison [...]

Why is the DOW feeding big game animals during the winter?
The Gunnison Basin occasionally experiences extreme winter conditions. The conditions – which affect deer the most – cause food sources to be covered or inaccessible to wildlife. Animals become exhausted while pushing through deep snow and deplete their internal fat stores and energy reserves.
Some winter [...]

Through the waves of heat rising off the sage-covered hill, a herd of pronghorn (Antilocapra Americana) mill about in reasonable security. Between the mature herd buck, nine does, 16 fawns and three satellite bucks, there are 29 sets of eyes constantly scanning the horizon for approaching danger.
If it weren’t for the white rumps and [...]

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) is opening 87,500 acres of private land in the southeast portion of the state for the public to hunt pronghorn and deer through the Big Game Access Pilot Program (BGAP). The program begins with the opening of the archery pronghorn season on August 15.
This is the first year [...]