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blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Home / Colorado / Colorado Revamps Preference Points! Colorado 7 Views Previously, during the May 2023 Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting, the Commission directed staff to form a Draw Process Working Group (DWG), and the DWG has been working since then on these focus topics: draw methods for the Primary and Secondary draws, preference points, the weighted draw for sheep, goat and moose, and the reissue process. Policies that were recommended to remain status quo were not...
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Home / Colorado / Colorado: Sheep, Moose & Goat Draw Colorado 4 Views PHOTO CREDIT: Mike Eastman Previously, during the May 2023 Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting, the Commission directed staff to form a Draw Process Working Group (DWG), and the DWG has been working since then on these focus topics: draw methods for the Primary and Secondary draws, preference points, the weighted draw for sheep, goat and moose, and the reissue process. Policies that were recommended to remain...
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Home / Colorado / Colorado: New Tag Reissue Process Colorado 6 Views Previously, during the May 2023 Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission Meeting, the Commission directed staff to form a Draw Process Working Group (DWG), and the DWG has been working since then on these focus topics: draw methods for the Primary and Secondary draws, preference points, the weighted draw for sheep, goat and moose, and the reissue process. Policies that were recommended to remain status quo were not discussed....
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Home / Colorado / Colorado: Big Changes Coming!
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PHOTO CREDIT: Mike EastmanDuring its Jan. 8-9, 2025, meeting, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission heard and approved proposed changes to regulations as follows.
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1 month ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Home / Big Game / Update on Colorado Regulation Changes for 2028 Big Game, Colorado, Free Content, General, Trophy Species 9 Views During the March 5-6 meeting, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) Commission reviewed staff recommendations on proposed regulations changes. After in-depth discussions, the Commissioners approved the following regulation to take effect in 2028. Deer, Elk, Bear, Pronghorn & Turkey: Changes to the Primary Draw 50/50 split draw (Preference Draw / Bonus Draw) The...
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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
Colorado lawmakers are one step closer to passing SB25-003, a sweeping gun ban on semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols. Last Friday, the Colorado Senate passed SB25-003. This bill initially called for a ban of virtually any semiautomatic firearm with a “detachable magazine.” But as it moved through the Senate, it was softened up with some amendments, including exceptions to allow for hunters to keep buying some semiautomatic firearms, such as semi-auto shotguns for waterfowl hunting, etc.
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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer
You may have read another Eastmans’ Blog about California possibly eliminating coyote hunting. The California Fish and Game Commission Wildlife Resources Committee (WRC) is proposing a change to prohibit the take of nongame mammals except per California Fish and Game code 4152. This would move the take of coyotes into the “depredation” category which would mean if you’re a rancher you must wait for a coyote to attack your cattle/sheep before you are legally able to shoot it.
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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer |Big Game
Home / 2025 Hunting Season / 2025 Colorado Hunt Planning 2025 Hunting Season, Big Game, Colorado, Free Content, General 5 Views Photo Credit: Mumemories It’s that time again, time to plan your Colorado Hunts for next fall! The application deadline is April 1st (8 p.m. Mountain Time) for 2025 and Colorado Parks and Wildlife has published the new 2025 Brochures to get you started. Here’s a link to the 2025 Colorado Big Game Brochure:...
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2 months ago | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer |Reintroduced Wolves
On Saturday, January 18, 2025, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) successfully completed the second year of gray wolf reintroduction efforts as part of Colorado’s Gray Wolf Restoration Plan. CPW now has additional high-resolution photos and b-roll footage of that effort featured in a media kit on its website.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
blog.eastmans.com | Dave Shaffer |Reintroduced Wolves
Home / Colorado / Colorado Wolf Location Update 1/23/25 Colorado, Free Content, General, Reintroduced Wolves, Wolf 27 Views Collared gray wolf activity recorded by CPW from December 22 – January 21, 2025 There are now 29 gray wolves in Colorado (CPW just translocated and released 15 additional wolves from British Columbia). As always, this number can change at any time if other wolves migrate to Colorado from other states. Wolves were released both north and south of I-70, however, we expect...
