Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission to meet November 16 - 17
Joey Livingston
BURLINGTON, Colo. – At a hybrid meeting in Burlington, the Parks and Wildlife Commission will open for final consideration of regulations including, but not limited to, cleaning up a disability accommodation procedure reference, modifications to red swamp crayfish possession and licensing requirements and adjusting license fees and license agent commission rates according to adjustments to the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood Consumer Price Index.The Commission will consider final regulations for 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 Dillion Reservoir in response to a decline in brown trout, adopting regulations prohibiting fishing around Hermosa Creek Confluence Fish Barrier and cleanup a property that is no longer open to the public and a misspelling in the chapter.
The Commission will consider adopting annual season dates and quotas for turkey hunting and a cleanup to the access permitting process for Higel and Rio Grande State Wildlife Areas.
The Commission will also consider final regulation cleanups to a misspelled county name, removal of regulations that are duplicates for James John State Wildlife Area, and a change to re-aline regulation with operating procedures for Integrated Parks and Wildlife System (IPAWS) agent bulletins.
The Commission will open the big game regulations for annual review regarding GMUs, GMU boundaries, hunt codes, season dates, modifying unlimited bull licenses in the Severe Winter Zone and removing electronic calls as a legal method of take for mountain lions statewide.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thu., Nov. 16 and adjourn at 1 p.m. for a Commission site visit at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. The commission will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. on Fri., Nov. 17 and adjourn at 11:45 a.m. The meeting will be streamed live on CPW’s YouTube page.
Additional agenda items include:
- Department of Natural Resources Update
- Department of Agriculture Update
- Financial Update
- Director’s Comments
- GOCO Update
- Wolves Update
- Creating a Disabled Veterans Outreach License
- Fishers Peak State Park Update
- Colorado Outfitters Association Presentation
The Commission meets regularly and travels to communities around the state to facilitate public participation. Anyone can listen to commission meetings through the CPW website. This opportunity keeps constituents informed about the development of regulations and how the commission works with Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff to manage the parks, wildlife and outdoor recreation programs administered by the agency. Find out more about the commission on the CPW website.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is an enterprise agency, relying primarily on license sales, state parks fees and registration fees to support its operations, including: 43 state parks and more than 350 wildlife areas covering approximately 900,000 acres, management of fishing and hunting, wildlife watching, camping, motorized and non-motorized trails, boating and outdoor education. CPW's work contributes approximately $6 billion in total economic impact annually throughout Colorado.