
Featured Conservation Posts

Hunters and Anglers Helping to Fund Colorado’s Wildlife Conservation
Colorado hunters and anglers fund wildlife conservation projects to sustain healthy ecosystems for future generations

Fish Facts: 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Colorado’s Fisheries
With more than 9,000 miles of rivers, 2,000 natural lakes and streams, it’s as if Mother Nature had fishing in mind when she created Colorado.
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Wolf Update: Colorado Wolf Restoration and Management Plan Approved
The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission Approves Historic Final Wolf Restoration and Management Plan.

Ptarmigan Pressure
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is collecting data to help alleviate pressures on ptarmigan by being better able to inform the general public of their presence and how people can help nurture the surrounding wildlife and landscape by practicing respectful recreation.

Video: Saving the Black-footed Ferret in Colorado
Colorado Parks and Wildlife releases video highlighting 10 years of efforts to restore endangered black-footed ferret

How to make 112 million fertilized walleye eggs
This year’s walleye spawning operation was one of the most successful in recent memory, we reached our statewide goal of 112 million eggs in only 13 days!

Wolf Update: CPW’s Ellen Brandell brings a passion for wolf ecology and scientific research planning to Colorado’s wolf program
This is the second part of a series profiling Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff involved in gray wolf reintroduction in Colorado.

Winter in the Northwest: Surviving today and after the snow melts
Using the data collected over the past several months, and anticipated additional losses throughout the spring, biologists are taking conservative approaches with this year’s license recommendations.

Winter in the Northwest: The Power Collaboration
Prolonged snow and extreme cold since October 2022 have made it difficult for wildlife to get much-needed food to survive the winter months.

Video: Catching Pine
Colorado Parks and Wildlife conducts first of its kind catch and release project to study pine marten in Colorado.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Mountain Lion Study
Ongoing study giving Colorado Parks and Wildlife a greater understanding of mountain lions across the Gunnison Basin.
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