Jerry L. Neal, Author at Colorado Outdoors Online

Colorado’s Arctic Grayling

Jerry L. Neal July 9, 2020

Video: Each June, Colorado Parks and Wildlife fishery technicians and biologists capture and spawn arctic grayling at Joe Wright Reservoir.

Help Stop The Spread of COVID-19 #DoingMyPartCO

Jerry L. Neal May 27, 2020

Research shows that people who have no symptoms can spread COVID-19. Wearing a non-medical face mask helps minimize the spread of the virus.

Saving Colorado’s Lesser Prairie – Chicken

Jerry L. Neal May 14, 2020

Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s dedicated researchers and biologists are restoring lesser prairie-chickens to the Comanche and Cimarron national grasslands.

Raising Colorado’s Brown Trout – North Delaney Butte Lake

Jerry L. Neal November 8, 2019

Despite Colorado’s abundant fish populations, most fish cannot successfully reproduce in the wild. And, of those species that are able to reproduce naturally, recruitment (the number of juvenile fish that actually survive to be added to a population) is often too low to support a fishable population. To ensure that there are enough fish to stock every year, CPW sets up spawn-collection sites at lakes and reservoirs across the state.

Livin’ the Wildlife: Colorado Wild Turkeys

Jerry L. Neal May 6, 2019

The wild turkey’s springtime mating displays are one of the most exciting and stunning events in nature. Yet, these iconic birds only exist today because of dedicated conservation programs.