Tag: Dan Prenzlow
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife director retires following probe of racially offensive remark
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Dan Prenzlow, director of Colorado’s Division of Parks and Wildlife since 2019, has retired following an investigation into a racially offensive remark he directed at a CPW employee during an April conference. The Department of Natural Resources in a statement indicated the probe — initiated after Prenzlow while speaking at a conference allegedly highlighted a Black…
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Reintroduction of gray wolves takes a step closer, recommendations face resistance
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission began review Wednesday of one of two major sets of recommendations on how the state will implement a largely Front Range voter-approved measure from 2020* to reintroduce gray wolves into western Colorado. The two sets of recommendations came from…
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Record visitation at Colorado state parks in 2020 spells ‘high-use’ fees
FRANKTOWN — Inside Castlewood Canyon State Park, where worldly troubles seem to float away with the creek and with the clouds out to snowcapped peaks beyond, a certain reality occurred to Trevor Girten. “Prices are only going up it seems,” he said Friday on his first hike of the new year. That was the case…
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Record visitation at Colorado state parks in 2020 spells ‘high-use’ fees
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Data confirms what the eye suggested at Colorado’s state parks in 2020: unprecedented visitation. Numbers were not yet final by the end of December, with counts still being logged from that month and some of November. But the 18.3 million visitors reported so far were up from the 14.8 million total in 2019 — a…
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CPW launches new podcast to educate Coloradans, tourists
In an attempt to educate Coloradans and those who travel to the state and enjoy the outdoors, Colorado Parks and Wildlife launched a podcast aimed to do just that. “Colorado Outdoors” officially launched on Monday as host Mark Johnson sat down with CPW’s Director, Dan Prenzlow to discuss a plethora of topics, including conservation, fishing…