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River Watch of Colorado is a statewide volunteer water quality-monitoring program operated in partnership between River Science and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Learn about their work and how you can volunteer to help.

The Fishing Is Fun program provides up to $650,000 annually in matching grants to local and county governments, park and recreation departments, angling organizations, water districts and others for projects to improve angling opportunities in Colorado. For over 30 years, the program has supported 375 angling improvement projects across the state.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Shooting Ra​nge Development Grant Program ​​(SRDG) provides up to $725,000 annually in matching grants to towns, counties, sportspeople and outdoor recreation organizations, shooting clubs, economic development agencies and others for projects to establish, improve or expand shooting ranges, including archery, across the state. 

Schools and Outdoor Learning Environments (SOLE) is Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s programming focused on the needs of formal education audiences; serving early childhood, Kindergarten through 12th grade, community college and university level students and educators with creating impactful connections to the outdoors.