Outdoors | Colorado buys 1,800 acres near Fairplay as playground for hunters, anglers, bird watchers, wildlife lovers By John Meyer March 15, 2024 at 2:20 p.m. "Tarryall Creek is a special area to so many people in Colorado, with easy access...
Outdoors | Bill passes providing liability protection for landowners who allow recreational access By John Meyer February 23, 2024 at 2:12 p.m. Two similar attempts to strengthen Colorado's Recreational Use Statute (CRUS) had failed in previous years.
Outdoors | Colorado has established state-run shooting ranges in recreational areas to help contain the sport By Mindy Sink February 23, 2024 at 2:09 p.m. Competitive and recreational shooters can practice their aim with sporting clays, skeet and trap.
Opinion Columnists | Opinion: America has carefully protected 112 million acres of Wilderness since 1964 By John Clayton February 22, 2024 at 5:01 a.m. Honoring wilderness ideals is especially important today because it represents the same lesson that we...
Environment | Colorado places new restrictions on mountain lion hunting as effort to ban killing the big cats continues By Elise Schmelzer January 12, 2024 at 4:13 p.m. Colorado no longer will allow hunters to use electronic devices to lure mountain lions to...
Opinion Columnists | Opinion: The surprise release of wolves near my ranching town has eroded ranchers’ trust By Skylar Fischer December 31, 2023 at 5:28 p.m. "As far as building relationships with the ranching community, this action immensely harms any sort...
Colorado News | Myth or reality? Bigfoot sightings reported in Colorado 130 times over past century By Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton December 28, 2023 at 10:24 a.m. Claims by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization raise a question for Coloradans: Could residents of the...
Opinion Columnists | Opinion: What did Westerners care about in 2023? By Betsy Marston December 19, 2023 at 11:47 a.m. The most-read award goes to Writers on the Range publisher Dave Marston, whose piece about...
Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Out-of-state hunters aren’t the problem. Here’s how to sustain and improve hunting in the West. By Lesli Allison November 30, 2023 at 2:57 p.m. Pulling the economic rug out from under private lands and wildlife by reducing tags for...
Business | As REI’s arrival nears in a southwestern Colorado mountain town, some local outdoor rec stores worry By John Aguilar December 1, 2023 at 9:41 a.m. A little more than a year before REI comes to Durango, its arrival has raised...