Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee seeks a new member, landowners actively engaged in agriculture encouraged to apply.

Joey Livingston
Statewide Public Information Officer
303-345-4658 / [email protected]

DENVER — The Colorado Wildlife Habitat Program (CWHP) is seeking applications from landowners actively engaged in agriculture that are interested in serving as a volunteer committee member beginning in 2025. The committee represents a broad constituency, however, the current opening is only for landowners actively engaged in agriculture. The application deadline is Dec. 6.

Committee members meet 3-4 times per year and are tasked with reviewing proposed CWHP projects before making recommendations to CPW’s Director and the Parks and Wildlife Commission. The CWHP offers funding opportunities for landowners who wish to voluntarily protect important wildlife habitat or provide wildlife-related recreational access to the public.

The committee's goal is to select projects that reflect Habitat Stamp statute 33-4-102.7, including protecting big game winter range and migration corridors, acquiring public access for hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing, protecting habitat for species of concern; and preserving the diversity of wildlife enjoyed by Coloradans.

The Colorado Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee is a volunteer-based committee composed of four sportspersons representing each quadrant of the state; two representatives of national or regionally recognized conservation organizations whose missions are focused on nongame wildlife and whose membership is composed primarily of nongame wildlife users; two landowners actively engaged in agriculture; one citizen at large; and two CPW representatives as ex-officio members. Members are appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. Appointments are for terms of four years each, and limited to two consecutive four-year terms. 

To apply, follow this link and select “Wildlife and Habitat Stamp Committee, Colorado”. 

The Colorado Wildlife Habitat Program 
The CWHP is an incentive based, voluntary program that accomplishes strategic wildlife conservation goals, and/or public access goals using conservation easements, public access easements, and in some circumstances, fee title purchases. Funding for qualified projects comes from the sale of Wildlife Habitat Stamps, the sale of hunting and fishing licenses, Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), and occasionally federal funding sources.

As of 2023, the CWHP has invested over $189 million to protect 291,000 of critical wildlife habitat via conservation easements, secure 147,000 acres of land for public access, purchase 33,000 acres of fee title land for new State Wildlife Areas, and secure 383 miles of river frontage for fishing and wildlife viewing.