Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Our Rookie Sportsperson Program teaches skills needed to increase the chance of success while hunting, but success is not the only goal. The program’s primary mission is to encourage participants to have an active lifestyle that promotes the conservation of Colorado’s natural resources. Read more: https://cpw.info/4cxQQ75

All of our state park visitors, including blind or lower vision visitors, deserve access to our services and that is where Aira steps in. More info: https://cpw.info/3XOO3BK

We’ve got 24,240 reasons to celebrate! Phil Long Dealership donated $24,240 to us in honor of Jay Cimino, their past president for 49 years. Jay, who passed away in February 2024, was pivotal in the creation of our Fishers Peak State Park and was known for his passion for selling cars and philanthropy. In April 2024, Phil Long Dealership held a give-back program benefiting five Colorado organizations in honor of Jay and we are one of the honored recipients! We are proud to receive this donation and celebrate Jay's legacy! Thank you, Phil Long Dealerships

Here's to OUR strong women #WorldFemaleRangerWeek2024 Our female Park Rangers are certified peace officers dedicated to protecting the people and natural resources in our state. Their job is not easy — between our varied geography, conditions, and recreational opportunities — but it’s one that matters to the future of Colorado. Plus our Park Rangers are some of the most passionate and hardworking people you will meet! So take a moment to give a shout-out to these rockstars ⭐

We love to see our team out and about We've joined several PRIDE events this month including our Barr Lake State Park team with the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies at Adams County Pride and our Cheyenne Mountain State Park and Volunteer Program teams at Pikes Peak Pride in early June. PLUS, our Eldorado Canyon State Park team will have a booth at Boulder Pride this Sunday, June 30. So if you're there, stop by and say hello! Keep up the great work, team! ❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

We've got some new state park managers on our team at Colorado Parks and Wildlife so let's take a moment to meet one, Matt Schuler! Matt has been working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife since 2007 and has been the park manager at Jackson Lake State Park since fall 2023. Matt says, "I love the wide open spaces buzzing with wildlife at Jackson Lake. Northeast Colorado has been the most welcoming community I've called home and I'm excited to be a part of it." Keep up the great work, Matt!

On the most recent episode of our Colorado Outdoors podcast, we chat with staff from our Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area about their work managing this expansive Colorado state park that spans across a 152-mile corridor from the Arkansas River to the high mountains near Leadville to Lake Pueblo. 🎧 Listen to our Colorado Outdoors podcast now — anywhere podcasts are available or at https://cpw.info/3XnaYnL

We've got some new state park managers on our team at Colorado Parks and Wildlife so let's take a moment to meet one, Lisa Gill ⭐ Lisa is the park manager for Barr Lake State Park, an important oasis for people and wildlife alike. The park offers a range of fun and engaging educational and outdoor recreational opportunities and is loved by the local community. Lisa says, "The staff and volunteers are a very talented, hardworking, and passionate group of people that it is an honor to work with each day. The park offers stunning views of the glittering lake, towering cottonwoods, and the Rocky Mountains in the distance.". Keep up the great work, Lisa!

Each fall, our biologists place wildlife cameras to monitor lynx activity and habitat occupancy 📹 🌲 But we were able to capture plenty of other wildlife too — moose, turkey, mountain goat, pine martin, bobcat and more!

This science at work is down to the bone ✅ An exciting discovery of skull and jaw fragments of a small mammal linked to all hoofed animals (also known as ungulates such as elk, deer, moose etc.) were discovered in Corral Bluffs Open Space in 2019 and 2021 and these findings were recently published in the “Journal of Mammalian Evolution”! Since 1991, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has led multiple discoveries of species and plant fossils at Coral Bluffs. Through our Colorado Natural Areas Program (CNAP) - a statewide conservation program that identifies and designates places with unique ecological value - we have partnered with the City of Colorado Springs, the owner of Corral Bluffs, to highlight and monitor the natural values of the site. We’re proud to help protect Corral Bluffs with a designation as our state’s 95th Colorado Natural Area in 2016. Volunteers from the Colorado Natural Areas Council (CNAC) and CNAP were given a field tour of the area by members of the Corral Bluffs Alliance group recently and we tagged along to experience the phenomenal sights Coral Bluffs awards. Read this great article about the recent fossil discovery: https://cpw.info/3yGAOsr