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Fur hangs inside Cowboy Up Hatters on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024, near Welby, Colorado. Coleen Orr鈥檚 hats are made of either 100% rabbit fur, 100% beaver fur or half of each kind of fur. (Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post)

How many beavers should Coloradans be allowed to hunt in a day? Wildlife leaders just decided

By Elise Schmelzer

July 17, 2026 at 3:22 p.m.

Colorado will now limit trappers in the number of beavers, foxes and other furbearer species...

Drilling on the Roan Plateau threatens Colorado’s elk (Letters)

By DP 抖阴ap

July 8, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

Colorado's world-class elk herd is in trouble! The Bureau of Land Management is proposing oil...

In this 2019 file photo, then Governor-elect Jared Polis welcomes Terry Knight, Spiritual Leader of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe for the Native American Blessing during his Inauguration at the Colorado Capitol. While the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe were granted free entrance to state parks under legislation Polis signed, the bill excluded the Ute Indian Tribe. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post)

A year ago Gov. Polis signed a law that screamed, “The Utes must still go!” (抖阴ap)

By Shaun Chapoose

May 20, 2026 at 5:01 a.m.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis鈥檚 refusal to recognize the Ute Indian Tribe鈥檚 rights under the Brunot...

Search and rescue crews have been combing Mount Shavano in southern Colorado since April 15, 2026, looking for missing hunter Kaden Sites. (Courtesy of the Chaffee County Sheriff鈥檚 Office)

Body of 27-year-old Salida man missing while hunting found Saturday

By Judith Kohler

April 26, 2026 at 4:36 p.m.

The body of聽 a 27-year-old Kaden Sites of Salida, who went missing April 15 while...

Extensive search underway for hunter missing in southern Colorado mountains

By Katie Langford

April 19, 2026 at 5:12 p.m.

Search crews are combing the southern Colorado mountains for a missing 27-year-old Salida man who...

Ellen Kessler of Littleton, right, attends a meeting at Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Hunter Education Building in Denver on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. The CPW Commission heard public comment on the status of the wolf reintroduction program and a petition from ranchers to delay the next round of wolf releases. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Colorado has paid more than $1.3 million to ranchers for wolf damages. Is its funding program sustainable?

By Elise Schmelzer

April 14, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

"The current wolf compensation program is so broad that it now covers claims beyond its...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, CO - SEPTEMBER 24: A bull Elk chases after a cow during the rut in a meadow near Moraine Park on September 24, 2023 in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado. A herd bull will approach cows slowly and carefully, with antlers high and tongue flicking, doing everything he can to win over a cow. If a cow is not ready to mate, she will move away with her head low, weaving her neck side to side and the bull will stop his immediate courting. Fall is approaching, and elk are entering their mating season, also known as the elk rut. Beginning September 1, annual meadow聽closures go into effect in Rocky Mountain National Park to prevent park visitors from disturbing elk during their rut. 聽According to a press release from the park meadow聽closures are in place between the hours of 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Meadow areas that are closed include Horseshoe Park, Upper Beaver Meadows, Moraine Park, Harbison Meadow, and Holzwarth Meadow.聽During the specified hours, these areas are closed to all travel on foot or via horseback off established roadways and established trails.聽 The elk rut lasts from聽late September to mid-October聽in聽the park as well as Estes Park. During this period, hundreds of elk descend to the lower meadows of聽Rocky Mountain National Park聽looking to mate. RMNP is home to over 3,000 elk in the fall months. Elk are highly social animals and travel in various herd sizes throughout the year. Herds can grow as large as a few hundred individuals. Elk have a large range and move according to seasonal food availability. In the summer, herds move to higher elevations to feed on tundra vegetation, while in the winter they move down to lower elevations of the park and down into the Front Range. Elk primarily graze on grasses and forbs but they also browse shrubs. They feed mostly in the morning and evening, and seek sheltered areas during the middle of the day to digest. They eat an average of 20 pounds of vegetation daily. (P

Colorado big game hunting and fishing licenses are now available for 2026

By The Summit Daily

March 5, 2026 at 8:18 a.m.

Hunters have until 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, to apply for Parks and Wildlife鈥檚 primary...

A pair of mule deer graze at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City in 2009.

Colorado soldiers convicted of poaching deer on Fort Carson, state land

By Katie Langford

January 21, 2026 at 1:17 p.m.

Two soldiers at Fort Carson were convicted of poaching mule deer on the military and...

A bull Elk puts out his tongue, a courting maneuver, during the rut in a meadow near Moraine Park on Sept. 24, 2023 in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park. A herd bull will approach cows slowly and carefully, with antlers high and tongue flicking, doing everything he can to win over a cow. If a cow is not ready to mate, she will move away with her head low, weaving her neck side to side and the bull will stop his immediate courting. Fall is approaching, and elk are entering their mating season, also known as the elk rut. Beginning September 1, annual meadow聽closures go into effect in Rocky Mountain National Park to prevent park visitors from disturbing elk during their rut. 聽According to a press release from the park meadow聽closures are in place between the hours of 5 p.m. to 10 a.m. Meadow areas that are closed include Horseshoe Park, Upper Beaver Meadows, Moraine Park, Harbison Meadow, and Holzwarth Meadow.聽During the specified hours, these areas are closed to all travel on foot or via horseback off established roadways and established trails.聽 The elk rut lasts from聽late September to mid-October聽in聽the park as well as Estes Park. During this period, hundreds of elk descend to the lower meadows of聽Rocky Mountain National Park聽looking to mate. RMNP is home to over 3,000 elk in the fall months. Elk are highly social animals and travel in various herd sizes throughout the year. Herds can grow as large as a few hundred individuals. Elk have a large range and move according to seasonal food availability. In the summer, herds move to higher elevations to feed on tundra vegetation, while in the winter they move down to lower elevations of the park and down into the Front Range. Elk primarily graze on grasses and forbs but they also browse shrubs. They feed mostly in the morning and evening, and seek sheltered areas during the middle of the day to digest. They eat an average of 20 pounds

Hunting loophole cause of concern for Pitkin, Eagle counties

By The Aspen Times

January 13, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

A loophole in Title 33 of Colorado鈥檚 Revised Statutes makes it difficult for CPW to...

In an undated photo, members of the Colorado Arlberg Club skin up the Mary Jane Trail in the early 1930s. Winter Park opened in 1940, and the resort's Mary Jane expansion debuted on Jan. 10, 1976. A 50th anniversary celebration will be held on Saturday. (Colorado Arlberg Club archives/Provided by Winter Park Resort)

Winter Park’s Mary Jane turns 50, ‘On Fire for God’ and more things to do in Denver

By John Wenzel

January 8, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

Plus the music of Charley Crockett at Mission Ballroom and hunting-fishing galore

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