SAVE THE DATE!!
Our 2020 banquet is approaching faster than we think! We will be back at the Hotel Elegante again this year on Saturday, March 14th. There will be games, live and silent auctions, and of course we will pull the winning tickets for this years raffle items. Banquet tickets will go on sale after Christmas and we expect them to sell out again this year.
Raffle tickets will also go on sale after Christmas, so check back then. Or better yet, sign up for our emails using the Mailing List Signup link at the top right of the page. That will ensure you are notified when raffle tickets go on sale.
STAY INFORMED
We have gone paperless, for the most part, so don’t look in your mail box for printed information about our event and the raffles. Our website is the place to go, and if you would like to make sure that you are getting the most up to date info and offers, OPT IN for our SCI E-News. (We do not share our lists so you can be sure the emails are from us, and not one else!!) We promise you that we will not hound you with mindless junk but we need and WANT to stay in touch with you. If you would like to get notices of our raffles and events, OPT IN to our email list. We will never rent or sell our list. It is safe here. We promise.
WE ARE MORE THAN JUST FUNDRAISING
The Colorado Chapter is more than fundraising. That is a huge component of what we do, but the great thing about raising money is getting to SPEND the money on conservation projects such as habitat for Colorado Moose; Humanitarian projects like the Sportsmen Against Hunger program where we collect meat and food and donate on an ongoing basis to a dozen food banks and shelters; and the Education arm of our chapter where we are very active in the Archery in the Schools program. These are just a sample of what we do with the money we raise.
God Bless our Men and Women in uniform and we thank all of you who have done so in the past.
On Target News
Today, we're celebrating 🎉
30 years ago, the North American Wetlands Conservation Act was enacted. Providing matching grants to wetlands conservation projects in the United States, Canada and Mexico, the act has aided in the acquisition and restoration of healthy wetland habitat.
Wetlands are an integral part of thriving environments. Healthy wetlands increase bird populations, support local economies and American traditions as well as reduce coastal erosion, improve water and air quality and provide flood control.
Learn more about the NAWCA along with NAWCA-funded projects in Colorado, including the Elliott State Wildlife Area pictured below: cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/News-Release-Details.aspx?NewsID=7170
📷: Ducks Unlimited
I wish people would understand how much ducks unlimited does for our wetlands and habitats. More than any peta or animals rights activists has ever done or spent
We visited Fountain Creek Nature Center for the first time yesterday. What a refuge! So nice to see ponds with cattails and so many birds. Will return <3
Mountain bikers 🚵🏾♀️—and hikers and equestrians and just about every other outdoor enthusiast in Colorado—you're going to want to see this.
Thanks to a collaborative effort with U.S. Forest Service and Routt County Riders, our newest Trails Program project in northwest Colorado is open. Check it out in the video below and learn more about our Trails Program here: cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/trails.aspx
Great project + great people - happy to see how well this turned out!
That's connected with Flash of Gold and Grouse Ridge, 2 other fantastic trails!
Awesome. Thank you CPW. 👍💕
Funded by hunter, Fisher, ohv licenses... hike and bike on!
Way to go!! Looking forward to next summer
I'm disappointed that this video shows almost nothing of the trail and promotes the idea that skidding tires is cool.
Rebecca Kissick steamboat trip!!
Fawn Coultas isn’t this cool. 😊
All the feels.
Steamboat artist, Chula Beauregard, used Pearl Lake State Park as inspiration for her recent mural. The painting in this room is meant to calm patients — especially the youngest ones.
New mural adds comfort to blood draws
steamboatpilot.com
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Getting your blood drawn isn’t fun at any age. But now, it’s a little better in one of the patient rooms at the main lab at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center. Over the...
Beautiful and a great idea! ❤️
so nice! used to love Pearl Lake, back when you could actually get a camp site there.
The reintroduction of moose in Colorado, funded by hunters, is a huge success story for Colorado conservation.. and it will be a complete waste of time and resources if non native wolves are brought back into an ecosystem that can't support them.. keep wolves out of our state.
Beautiful.
Sherry V. Johnston-Michaelson not only do you draw blood... you are an artist too!!!!
March 14th 2020--Save the Date. Our 41st Annual Banquet. That night we will draw the winner of the CO Raffle Moose Tag
Just another day at Barr Lake State Park... 👀🦊🦅Great photo! Credit : fera.montis
I miss the eagles of Wisconsin so much!
What a great picture!
What an amazing picture!
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!
What an awesome picture!
Great shot. Bold fox.
awesome~~!!!!!!
Very nice!
Awesome!
Wounded goose don’t stand a chance in this crowd.
Great shot 📸
Walk away Red, just keep on walking.
I love nature
Outstanding
BEAUTIFUL
Marinette Wuischpard Snyder & Gordon Snyder -- don't forget Barr Lake even in the winter!
When was the photo taken?
Fox better watch it...those eagles look hungry!
Wowza
Meg Lowrey
Brandon
Katie Sandage
Garet G Davis
Steven Gerner
Fran Burns
Have you taken a friend hunting yet this year? With small game seasons well under way, it's not too late 💪🏽 Invite a novice hunter into the field and you both could win great prizes.
Learn more about #takeafriend Hunting: cpw.state.co.us/takeafriendhunting
I just completed my first Hunter's Safety Training a couple of weeks ago, looking forward to joining in with friends for my first hunt soon enough!
Went hunting for the first time ever this year with a so called friend. Worst experience of my life.
Braxton’s first time last weekend!
I always take my best friend.
Chris Capper
Matt Marlor
Cameron Weber
Ben Peal 😉
I dont think that girl has a plug in her gun ! She looks guilty ? BUST HER !
There's some great birding happening at St. Vrain State Park right now! 🐦We are seeing a whole lot of raptors on the park this week: Bald Eagles, Harlan's Hawks, Harriers, Red-Tailed Hawks, Ferruginous Hawks, and these cute little American Kestrels. American Kestrels are the smallest Falcon in North America, and they really like hunting rodents in the grassy fields near the campgrounds.
Out here in Idaho, we have been able to watch these little Kestrels coming out of their eggs through the wonderful work of video spying on a daily basis during their hatching. A person can really get "hooked" on watching! I did and do when such a video is shared with the public.
Yes, love them too! They are so pretty. Wicked hunters though. Thanks for the tag, Deanna. I do believe you’re a birder now!
Beautiful! I’ve never heard of this!
I saw a Kestrel in my yard last week!
Magnificent bird.
Love Kestrels!! ❤️🐦
Beautiful pic Beautiful bird
Grant Everett I’m reminded of that figurine you used to have in your office. This park is close to you.
South Louisiana
Jackie Fowler Dimmick, hike next week?
Any spotted at Vega?
Dave Prentice
Kendall Foltz Konicek look at this one
Andrea McQueen Nataf
Rod Schmidt
Krissie Lynch have you seen this?
Brian Naslund
Vanessa McGilbray
Kalvin
Damaris Santos
Jonathan Long
Outdoor Channel joins opposition to reintroducing wolves to Colorado
coloradopolitics.com
The Outdoor Channel has joined a movement to stop grey wolves from being reintroduced to Colorado.With the educational mobile gaming platform Agents of Discovery, we've developed augmented reality adventures for 10 of our state parks. The goal is to get kids outside, get them moving and provide opportunities for them to learn about their environment 🔎🥾
Learn more: theknow.denverpost.com/2019/12/05/kids-hiking-app-entertainment/228762/
Would be so cool if the adventures also included archaeological endeavors!
No wonder they are raising the prices, this is just a commercial
awesome how the west slope children are moving so much they don’t need an app...keep up the good work kids!
Julie B. Ashby
Good Morning, Colorado. Right now looking up at Mt. Antero.
What’s your favorite place to watch the sun rise? #livelifeoutsideCO
Out of my front windows in Villa Grove.
Nothing like tall, snow covered mountains above the tree line and the sun just coming up! Enjoy, Coloradoians!!
The light off of Longs Peak from our deck The sun sets over the range.
Horsetooth Mountain Park! Outside of Fort Collins where the runner killed the juvenile cougar with his bare hands. Last week in Aug, 2017
Pearl Lake State Park Co.
My backyard!!
Anywhere in Colorado!
Lake Powell...
Either Glenwood Springs or near Marshall Pass
Pikes Peak🤘
St Elmo
Rahime Tyller
On this week's episode of My First Big Game Hunt, I tackle a daunting task: learning how to read Colorado's Big Game brochure. Join me as my new hunting mentor, Matt, breaks down how to read the rules, licenses and regulations.
Protip: there are some huge fish in Lake Pueblo State Park. 🐟
Randy Stillwell of Pueblo West caught this state record blue catfish using a crappie jig. He says he was just lucky: "Right place, right time." He spent 30 minutes trying to keep pressure on his 14-lb test line and land the monster. Officer Gretchen Holschuh certified it a state record measuring 38⅝ inches & weighing 29.132 pounds with a 25-inch girth! Congrats Randy.
Take a friend fishing and you could hook some great prizes! Check out our Take a Friend Fishing Contest: cpw.state.co.us/thingstodo/Pages/Take-a-Friend-Fishing.aspx
Sorry, but did I read that right? 14 ounce test line? Not 14 pound test?
caught this channel on a squarebill crankbait. big cats are hunters more than bottom feeders no doubt. Great catch Randy!! 😯
Wow, that takes skill to pull that fish in with that line! Congratulations! 👍
Catch of the week😃😃 #Nileriver#
Yep my boys stay on the catfish ! This near 20 lber was got on 6lb line on a drop shot !
Good grief! That's amazing!
Wow. Impressive catch. Congratulations!
Thankfully, I'm not a fisherman.
Whoa!!!! Congratulations! Awesome catch!!!
Beautiful fish.
Great catch Randy.
Awesome catch...well done
He caught that fish 14-ounce test line huh? That seems like awfully light test Tippet? World record no doubt
Nice Blue! These things get 50-60 lbs in Texas but aren’t worth eating.... good for a photo and then released back to keep populating the lakes.
Excellent...those fire roasted chilis really make them fat... 🙂
That is awesome.
Wow!! That’s awesome!!!
Congratulations Randy!
Awesome!!
Sweet. 😯
Now that is what I call an eating size. My dad used to catch fish that just made the limit size in length. And many a time, he had to throw back what he caught! He fished Colorado but it was never in Pueblo! But, he did catch a lot of trout, frying pan size!! yum, yum!
Gary Garihan check this out
Should probably be some good eating out of those waters. Enjoy !!
"14 oz test line" 😂
What do you get an outdoor enthusiast who has everything? Our gift certificate may be just the thing. State park passes, camping reservations and more: give the gift of the outdoors this holiday season ❄️ 🎁
Learn more: cpw.state.co.us/Pages/Holiday.aspx
Still don't have your Christmas tree? Come to State Forest State Park's Merry Moosemas Open House this Saturday, Dec. 7 to cut your own fresh 🎄, between 9-4:30 p.m.
Stop by the Moose Visitor Center for your permit and cut down one of our lodgepole pine or spruce trees. Limit one tree per family. Five dollars per tree—cash or check only—plus your daily vehicle pass or an annual pass. Be sure to bring a rope, tarp and tree cutting tools, including a hand saw, etc., and check the weather before you head out. Dress appropriately!
Call the Moose Visitor Center if you have questions, at 970-723-8366.
Is Saturday the 7th the only day you can cut down a tree?
I have a perfect one growing in my front yard. I like to just decorate IT!💕
Oh I would so love to, but you're to far away.......
Why not sell saplings so people can grow Christmas trees in their yard instead of killing them?
Beautiful picture
Little!
Kelsey Way wouldn’t this be awesome?!
Kasey Joyce
Los Angeles is like............. I'm not jealous. I'm not jealous at all. 😉
Heather Denise
Stephanie Brady Lundgren are you all cutting trees? Thought of you!
Tod Huckaby
Regan Dean
Shawn
Hilary Harris
Bill Miller
Fresher for sure !!
Matthew Baldwin Coker
Cortney
Joel Von
Tyler Foiles
I'd rather go ice fishing
Oren
Shannon Jesienouski Brian Jesienouski Meghan Platt
Emily Maurer!!!
Currently in awe of these photos depicting a peaceful, frozen day at Barr Lake State Park, Colorado State Parks.
Have any recent photos from the parks? We'd love to see. Share them below ⬇️
📷: Peggy Schafer
Captured this shot of Tundra Swans yesterday @ Barr Lake State Park, Colorado State Parks.
Beautiful photos.
Cherry Creek State Park. 2 weeks ago
So glad someone got a picture of them.
Micah, we gotta go back there after the new year!
Gods works . Gorgeous
Our Northeast Region Native Aquatics Crew outlines all the habitat attributes that make for a good breeding pond for our state endangered boreal toad. Watch as they take you on a journey through a toad pond and learn that even when there is no water, there is still life.
We all enjoyed it, thank you!
Awesome video guys;)
This is an excellent video...thank you for sharing! 👍
Kirsten Wernert Do you miss the toads?
Taylor Fletcher
Kiva Stevens
This is an ecology education piece. I have shared and hope to find a link to send it along to my friends not on FB.
Hi there! Crystal here. When I first started this hunting journey I thought it would be pretty easy since I love being outdoors. It turns out hunting is actually way harder than I thought. I absolutely needed a mentor to guide me through this new process. Join me as I meet with Jason Duetsch, Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s Statewide Hunter Outreach Coordinator. He’s going to help me find just the right hunting mentor… I hope.
And be sure to watch and subscribe on Youtube to get notified when the next video appears: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJIvFXfn2o
I have introduced 2 adult friends to hunting in Colorado. They are now 2 of your best customers. They get out MUCH more than I do these days.
Sarah Sebastian Sheridan Have been amazing to me an my son as we start this hunting journey in the US. Also the Hunter ed, field dressing and pheasant classes we took with Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Thats awesome!!
Maria Virginia Vazquez
Interesting, where can we get info in this?
Hunting is difficult. It takes putting yourself out there fully to realize it is not as easy as people think.
The 2019 Colorado Outdoors Photography Issue is here!
Cyber Monday deal: Today only, subscribe, renew or give a gift subscription of the magazine for half the regular price! bit.ly/2pV98wQ
🎞: Wayne Lewis/CPW
I always enjoy look forward to receiving the latest issue in the mail! GREAT GIFT for any outdoor enthusiast!
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Nature is neat 😍Check out this awesome photo of a piebald mule deer submitted by Pagosa Springs resident Jim Morrell!
The piebald coloring is caused by a genetic abnormality that causes some of the deer's pigment cells not to be able to produce color, resulting in a white coloration. These deer are uncommon because it requires both parents the recessive gene in order to produce a piebald fawn.
Not in Colorado though. Still a beautiful deer. This one was still with its mom.
I've only seen this once in my life.
Beautiful sight!
I have lived in Colorado my entire life, and have never heard of or seen one ! He his a beauty 💙
Love the photo and love the information thanks Dolores
Taken a few years ago. Won’t say where but it was in Co.
I saw this one almost 3 yrs ago south of Pagosa
I saw piebald elk in Rocky Mtn Ntl Park a few years ago.
I harvested one about 20 years ago.
Beautiful
Great shot, Jim!
The gene also causes severe back and leg deformities.
Sooo cool!!
Outstanding Beautiful 👍😎
Wished you hadn't given the location
Steve Honzalek thought you would enjoy this photo!
Austin Major
Lloyd Raney
Anna L. Perez
Adam Deakin
Jill Lynn look how pretty
Rob Oliverius
Jim Langhofer
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2016 Moose Tag Raffle Winner
Eric Stahlecker was the lucky winner of our statewide moose tag last year. He sent us this great note and a picture of the awesome moose he harvested. "On March 6th 2016 I found out I had won the Colorado statewide moose license through SCI. Phone calls to friends...
SCI Colorado 2106 Raffle Winners
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