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Colorado legislators review wolf program as funding challenges persist

Updated 5 days ago

Wolves took center stage during a Tuesday review by Colorado legislators of the budget proposal from the Department of Natural Resources, which includes the division...

Denver zoo president to step down

Updated 6 days ago

The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance president and CEO for the last seven years is stepping down this month. In a news release Wednesday, the DZCA...

Outgoing CPW director Jeff Davis lands new role, same salary amid Colorado hiring freeze

Updated 2 weeks ago

Jeff Davis, who resigned as director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife late last month, will continue to receive the same salary in his new role...

51 acres of private Colorado inholdings secured by land trust in two popular wildernesses

Updated 2 weeks ago

Acquisitions will help to add onto public lands in pristine state ecosystems The Montana-based Wilderness Land Trust announced Wednesday it recently acquired two private inholdings...

Copper Creek yearling wolf blamed for livestock death in Gunnison County

Updated 2 weeks ago

After Colorado reintroduction, wild turkeys are a common urban encounter

Updated 3 weeks ago

Jeff Davis out as head of Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Updated 3 weeks ago

New study from CU Boulder finds troubling signs for this iconic Rocky Mountain animal

Updated 3 weeks ago

CPW wants answers after mountain lion killed illegally near Colorado mountain town

Updated 3 weeks ago

Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine

Updated 3 weeks ago

Ranch owner who built 8.5-foot fence in Colorado faces $66K per day fine

Updated 3 weeks ago

Researchers in Colorado using cutting-edge tech to track the continent’s most endangered mammal

Updated 3 weeks ago

Washington state leaders rip Colorado over ‘failing’ wolf reintroduction program

Updated 4 weeks ago

Another translocated wolf dies in Colorado, bringing total to 12

Updated 1 month ago

Trump taps ex-N.M. congressman to head BLM

Updated 1 month ago

Steve Pearce, a former Republican congressman from New Mexico and, until last December, the chair of the New Mexico Republican Party, is the latest nominee...

US Fish and Wildlife Services tells Colorado: No more wolves from Canada, Alaska

Updated 2 months ago

Efforts by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to bring in more wolves from Canada later this year may have hit a snag after the U.S. Fish...

Baby moose stuck in skate park bowl in Colorado mountain town

Updated 2 months ago

UPDATE: The moose has been rescued. The moose was sedated and pulled out of the bowl with a winch. Authorities stuck around until sedation wore...

Colorado River near Grand Junction infested with zebra mussels, state officials report

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado now has five bodies of water, including a stretch of the Colorado River from east of Grand Junction to the Utah border, that are...

Butterfly Pavilion offers guests a chance to get up close and personal with spiders

Updated 3 months ago

Elk bugling in Rocky Mountain National Park now as ‘rut’ enters prime

Updated 3 months ago

Uncollared wolf believed responsible for Livestock deaths shot by CPW

Updated 3 months ago

New study looks at ‘right to float’ on Colorado waterways

Updated 3 months ago

A horse named Sweetie rescued from a mud hole in Boulder County

Updated 4 months ago

6 wolf pups counted from One Ear Pack in northern Colorado, caught on camera playing

Updated 5 months ago

Boulder police investigate fatal mountain lion attack on dog

Updated 5 months ago

Colorado ranchers claim nearly $650k in wolf attacks, but CPW data shows discrepancies

Updated 6 months ago

Cow moose linked to recent attack relocated from Steamboat park

Updated 6 months ago

‘Not a normal cat’: Jefferson County woman finds wild animal in home

Updated 7 months ago

Commerce City officer hailed as ‘snake-charmer’ after driveway incident

Updated 7 months ago

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A slithery standoff on a Commerce City driveway left no one rattled, after a police...

CPW has released 15 new wolves in Colorado

Updated 11 months ago

Fifteen wolves from British Columbia were released from Jan. 12 to Jan. 16. CPW also rereleased five members of the Copper Creek pack that they...

Bald eagle becomes official national bird as best viewing season approaches in Colorado

Updated 12 months ago

A walk through one of the metro Denver area’s parks this winter could result in the sighting of a bald eagle — the official U.S. national...

Thousands of tarantulas will begin migrating through Colorado this month

Updated 1 year ago

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Be warned. Thousands of tarantulas will be making their way across Colorado very soon. No,...