Colorado Hunting News

The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) is seeking to expand its Walk-In Access Program in western Colorado. Additional funding has been provided to enroll acreages where landowners are interested in providing public small game, turkey and waterfowl access during the upcoming hunting seasons. Big game hunting is not part of this program.

The Walk-In Access Program was originally designed to give hunters in eastern Colorado opportunity to harvest pheasants and small game. Additionally, the program provides an alternative revenue opportunity for landowners outside of the usual crop growing season.
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April marks an important time for many hunters in Colorado. After a long winter and a slowly approaching spring, its time to apply for big game licenses and make plans for autumn hunting seasons. But April also brings another hunting opportunity, one that occurs much sooner than the distant big game seasons, and one that an increasing number of Coloradoans are pursuing, the spring turkey season.

With spring turkey seasons set to begin on April 14th and a plethora of good opportunities available, hunters are making plans now. Across much of the state, turkey populations are doing very well where good habitat exists to support the birds. Colorado is home to two types of wild turkeys; the native Merriam’s and the introduced Rio Grande turkey. In Colorado, Merriam’s wild turkeys are widely distributed, with core populations located on the southeast pinyon-juniper canyons, the southern Front Range, and western Colorado. Smaller populations are found along the northern Front Range. Rio Grande wild turkeys were introduced to Colorado from neighboring states to the east, and occur primarily within the cottonwood-riparian drainages on the Eastern Plains. The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has been transplanting turkeys to suitable habitat for many years and because of this, turkeys may be more numerous now than at any point in history.
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