COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting recap for November 16 - 17

• Cleanup to a disability accommodation procedure reference. (Step 1 of 1)  
• Modifications to red swamp crayfish possession and licensing requirements.  
• Adjusting license fees and license agent commission rates according to adjustments to the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Consumer Price Index.
  • The Commission also voted to increase the resident bear license price to the statutory cap of $58.30. They also voted to increase the nonresident bear license price to $250.00 and the nonresident mountain lion license price to $500.00, both of which are still below the statutory cap.  

• Removing two special fishing restrictions on the Upper Arkansas River.  
• Adopting special condition regulations for artificial flies and regulations for trout fishing on the Upper Square Top Lake, Lover Square Top Lake, Duck Creek to Duck Lake, West Fork Clear Creek, and Williams Gulch.   
• Modifying regulations on the Blue River, Tenmile Creek and Dillon Reservoir in response to a decline in brown trout.  
• Adopting regulations prohibiting fishing around Hermosa Creek Confluence Fish Barrier. 
• Cleanup a property that is no longer open to the public and a misspelling in the chapter.  

• Creating a Disabled Veterans Outreach License.  
• Modifying the Game Management Unit (GMU) 43 and creating GMU 431.  
• Modifying the Game Management Unit boundaries for 79 and 791. 

• Creating a new 4th rifle antlered mule deer hunting season in data analysis Unit D-12.  
• Creating a new 4th rifle antlered deer hunting season in Game Management Units 85, 140 and 851.  
• Creating limited antlerless deer hunt codes in data analysis unit D-35.  

• Replacing either-sex hunt codes in data analysis unit E-2 with antlered hunt codes.  
• Removing hunt code EF003E1R.  
• Modifying antler point restrictions on Ranching For Wildlife properties located in the Bear’s Ears (E-02) and White River (E-06).  
• Modifying unlimited bull licenses in the Severe Winter Zone.  

• Closing pronghorn doe hunting in data analysis unit PH-9 for all methods of take.  
• Creating private land only rifle pronghorn licenses in data analysis unit PH-20.  
• Replacing hunt code AF110L1R with two hunt codes in data analysis unit PH-8.  
• Replacing hunt code AF128P5R with two hunt codes in data analysis unit PH-7.  
• Creating a late pronghorn season in data analysis unit PH20.  

• Adding a wilderness only hunt code to data analysis unit M-8.  

• Limiting hunt codes for private land only in data analysis unit B-7.  
• Modifying game management unit 61 archery, muzzleloader, and early October rifle bear hunt codes to be add-on over-the-counter licenses.  

• Opening game management unit S-79 to hunting.   

• Removing electronic calls as a legal method of take for mountain lions statewide.  

• Cleanup to a county name that is misspelled in regulation.  

• Cleanup to remove regulations that are covered in Chapter W-9 and are no longer needed in W-2 relating to James John State Wildlife Area.  

• Cleanup to realign regulations with operating procedures pertaining to the frequency of IPAWS agent bulletins.  

• Modifying boundary language for the early season, high country rifle antlered deer hunt in GMU 74.  

• Modifying the private land only antlerless elk licenses in GMU 104 to be list C.   
• Removing hunt codes EF851O1M and EF851O3R.