{"id":797861,"date":"2019-07-22T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368986"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:19:12","slug":"colorado-parks-and-wildlife-expands-public-hunting-access-by-100000-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-expands-public-hunting-access-by-100000-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Parks and Wildlife expands public hunting access by 100,000 acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-HuntersRoundtable-SDN-053019.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-HuntersRoundtable-SDN-053019.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Brf-HuntersRoundtable-SDN-053019-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has expanded hunting access by 100,000 acres on state trust land.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>FRISCO \u2014 The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has unanimously approved a multiyear expansion of the Public Access Program, which provides limited, seasonal&nbsp;hunting and fishing opportunities on Colorado trust land across the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The vote is the first step in a multiyear effort to double the size of the program from 480,000 acres \u2014 the majority of which are in northwestern Colorado, where there is prime big-game&nbsp;hunting \u2014 to nearly 1 million acres.<\/p>\n<p>Parks and Wildlife also plans to enroll land on the plains of eastern Colorado, where bird&nbsp;hunting and small-game&nbsp;hunting is popular, to provide a broader array of opportunities on trust land.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Parks and Wildlife will announce the locations of the new areas, 100,000 acres of which are expected to be added by the fall 2019 hunting season. This would be the first major expansion of the program since it began in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Access Program is made possible through a lease agreement between the State Land Board and Parks and Wildlife, which funds its 1 million acre lease through&nbsp;hunting and fishing license fees and the Future Generations Act approved by the 2018 Legislature. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The public can view land enrolled in the Public Access Program using&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/state.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=5144ed31c5f2ba642e0393361&amp;id=026c42dbca&amp;e=93698da101\" target=\"_blank\">Parks and Wildlife\u2019s&nbsp;Hunting Atlas<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-parks-and-wildlife-expands-public-hunting-access-by-100000-acres\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has expanded hunting access by 100,000 acres on state trust land.Courtesy Colorado Parks and Wildlife FRISCO \u2014 The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission has unanimously approved a multiyear expansion of the Public Access Program, which provides limited, seasonal&nbsp;hunting and fishing opportunities on Colorado trust land across the state.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 13:09:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}