All big game animals require four major components for their existence: food, water, shelter and space. These variables are all critical to their survival and can vary noticeably from year [ … ]
Coming soon…
The 2021 Northwest Colorado Hunting Guide is on its way! Pick up your free print copy in a store near you in NW Colorado, or watch for the link to [ … ]
CPW offers hunters one-evening seminar on field dressing harvested animals
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – For both novice and expert hunters, one of the toughest challenges after a successful big game hunt is preparing the animal for human consumption. To help [ … ]
Know the rules, know your limits
Hunting is challenging. Not only must you understand the habits of the animal you are hunting, you must also understand regulations, laws governing public and private lands and your own [ … ]
The disconnect
I love waking up at 10 a.m. on a golden Saturday fall morning in September. Growing up in a northwest Colorado small-town, September kicks off the biggest economic intake: hunting [ … ]
A different kind of sign
I am a big believer in signs from our loved ones who have passed and that they are always watching over us. Some signs seem to stand out more than [ … ]
Wildlife Warriors
How CPW’s long-term efforts saved Colorado’s critters In Colorado 150 years ago, wildlife faced a dire future. To provide food for miners and settlers streaming west during the gold rush [ … ]
More questions than answers on climate
Deer and elk herds in northwestern Colorado might be affected by climate change at some point, according to biologists in Colorado and elsewhere studying how warming temperatures, weather events and [ … ]
LEAVE NO TRACE
By David Schwartz NWCO Hunting Guide Northwest Colorado is home to nearly half a million acres of public land federally designated as wilderness area. Wilderness areas are part of the [ … ]
Handling hunting mistakes
Every year hunters make mistakes in the field. Hunters might: shoot the wrong animal, accidentally kill more than one animal, hunt in the wrong Game Management Unit, etc. Most of [ … ]