Colorado does stock splake. Female brook trout tend to have washed out colors vs. males, particularly in clear water. They get more colorful as they get closer to spawning.
Great. So the commission could raise application fees for all by $3 per species and cover the predicted $2.2 million loss in revenue to CPW if going to 80:20 without any need for the general assembly.
@Oak Do you know if the commission has the authority to raise application fees or add a PP fee for deer, elk, pronghorn? If so, they could increase revenue beyond CPI without having to go through the general assembly. I thought the commission added the $50-$100 PP fee for MSG but am not sure.
80:20 would go a long way to address point creep for residents😄.
Proposing to require the use of PP for all list A deer and list A pronghorn licenses would fix a lot of the point creep problem and still allow CPW to sell most of the crap that are generally elk licenses.
I mostly agree. The benefit I see to pushing off the OTC discussion is that it gives us time to try and get a cap on both NR archery and NR rifle OTC with the caveat that all NR OTC tags need to be applied for in the draw. I think most outfitted clients would have already sent a deposit by the...
I may be misinterpreting your post but currently in CO you only use/loss your points if you draw your first choice. Many of the hunt codes that require double digit points for a NR to draw are already under a 80:20 split.
Your ignorance and hostile attitude toward resident hunters should make you an excellent candidate for the CPW commission. You should apply and fix this from the inside! #grateful
The reason this hasn’t already occurred is because CPW knows that it would result in thousands of crappy tags going unsold. In Colorado, effective solutions to problems are dismissed if they result in any loss of revenue to CPW and why point banking and point averaging are going to be proposed...
The numbers are from the financial update spreadsheets CPW provides to the commission during the September meeting each year. https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/CommissionMeetings.aspx
Scroll down to each year, click on the sept meeting, scroll down to PowerPoint, financial update. I...
I think we should have a minimum of 80:20 for limited units. I agree that capping OTC or making OTC tags only available in the draw are both great ideas and would support it for both R and NR as this would atleast avoid any future increase in hunter numbers. Capping OTC tag numbers at a number...
I disagree. It has been over a decade since there has been serious discussion regarding allocation and it only got this far due to the treat of legislation. If we don’t get a statewide adjustment this time around, we may never get another opportunity. CPW/COA are very effective at putting up...
In FY 17-18 when the Future Generations Act was passed by the legislature, wildlife related revenue was 136 million. The justification for passing the act was that CPW predicted a 30 million dollar deficit by 2025 for the wildlife portion of CPW.
In FY 18-19 wildlife related revenue increased...