Agency History, Annual Reports, and Strategic Plans
ANNUAL/BIENNIAL REPORTS
Agency annual and biennial reports beginning with the 1877 Fish Comissioner's report, ending in 2006. Reports are grouped by title, which changed over the years. There are time periods when no report was issued; for example no reports were issued from 1965-1985
Annual Report, Colorado Division of Wildlife, 1992-2006
Annual Report to the People of Colorado, 1986-1991
Annual Report, Game, Fish and Parks Department, 1963-1964
Annual report, State of Colorado Department of Game and Fish, 1952-1962
Annual/Biennial Reports of the Game and Fish Department, 1926-1948
Biennial Report of the State Game and Fish Commissioner of the State of Colorado, 1899-1926
Biennial Reports of the Fish Commissioner, 1877-1898
MANAGEMENT PLANS
Principles of Game and Fish Management (1962 Annual Report, CGFD)
Colorado Game, Fish, and Parks Dept. 1965. Long Range Management Plans for Game Species: Background Information.
(For individual species management plans, search the Library Catalog).
Colorado Division of Wildlife. 1974. The Strategy of Today, for Wildlife Tomorrow: Volume I: A Strategic Plan for the Comprehensive Management of Colorado's Wildlife Resource: 1975-1980
Colorado Division of Wildlife. Today's Strategy ... Tomorrow's Wildlife: A Comprehensive Management Plan for Colorado's Wildlife
1977 plan | 1983 plan | 1987 plan
Colorado Division of Wildlife. Long Range Plan
1988 plan | 1991 update | 1994 plan
Colorado Division of Wildlife. 2006. Colorado's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy and Wildlife Action Plans: Prepared for the Citizens of Colorado and its Visitors
Colorado Parks and Wildlife. 2015. State Wildlife Action Plan: A Strategy for Conserving Wildlife in Colorado
OTHER AGENCY HISTORY RESOURCES
Since 1938, Colorado Outdoors has been the official publication of the agency. The Research Library has a complete print collection of the magazine.
- Colorado Conservation Comments (1938-1950)
- Colorado Conservation (1951-1955)
- Colorado Outdoors (1956-present)
Indexes to the magazine:
- Index to Colorado conservation and Colorado outdoors: 1952 through 1964: Combined subject, author, title index
- Index: Colorado Outdoors: 1965 – 1979: Author, artist, subject index
Purchase back issues of Colorado Outdoors on their website. CPW employees may request digital copies of articles from the Research Library.
A Look Back: A 65-Year History of the Colorado Game and Fish Department (1961): Colorado’s Wildlife Story by Pete Barrows and Judith Holmes. 1990, 450 pages.
Print copy in Research Library: SK 375 .B37 1990
Outdoor News (1950-1979): A weekly newsletter published by the Colorado Division of Wildlife.
Additional agency newsletters will be added as they are digitized.