Agency History, Annual Reports, and Strategic Plans

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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:

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.

Agency History, Annual Reports, and Strategic Plans