Bighorn Sheep
Bison
Bison Reintroduction
Black Bear
Chronic Wasting Disease
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Colorado’s Second Fur Trade
Colorado’s “Second Fur Trade” was typified by the burgeoning popularity of mink fur coats, a luxury item that enjoyed great popularity during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. As one of Colorado’s leading productive industries for several decades, mink…
Conifers
Cottonwood Trees
Elk Culling
Culling is a wildlife management practice involving the lethal reduction of a species. It has historically been used as a means to control ungulate (hoofed animal) populations in Colorado and throughout the United States. As recently as 2009, it has been…
Land Use and Bird Life in Colorado
In the early to mid-1800s, when Europeans and Euro-Americans began arriving in what is now Colorado, they encountered a landscape that was significantly different from what we see today. The changes that have occurred to the landscape since then have had…
Moose
Mountain Lion
Mountain Pine Beetle
Mule Deer
Rocky Flats Nuclear Facility
Rocky Mountain Elk
Sage grouse
Sage grouse are a group of chicken-sized birds with a unique breeding behavior and dependence on sagebrush shrubs (genus Artemisia) for food and shelter throughout their life cycle. In the last century, human population expansion throughout western North…