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A friend told me to check this link for the upcoming CO DOW meeting in Grand Junction at the end of the month. The link is for a PDF document that lays out every hunt code in the state for every species. It lists the tag numbers from 2007 and the "proposed" numbers for 2008. All of the proposed reductions from the previous year are in red. There is a lot of red!
I personally have never been to one of the DOW meetings, but the rumor is this document is usually appoved every year as it is written. If that happens, some tags (especially deer) are going to be much harder to come by in some GMUs this year!
Here is a snapshot of the 2007 tags that were available with the "proposed" state-wide 2008 numbers:
Deer/Archery/Either Sex: 2007/8550 2008/8150
Deer/Muzzle/Bucks: 2007/6041 2008/5571
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/2nd season: 2007/23,248 2008/16,102
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/3rd season: 2007/46,745 2008/10,681
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/4th season: 2007/3520 2008/3230
Some of the GMUs will stand to lose LOTS of tags this year if the plan is approved as written. The area I normally hunt is proposed to go to 805 tags in 2008 (from 1895 tags in 2007). That's a reduction of 1090 tags (57% loss).
The third season will get hit especially hard (a reduction of 36,000 tags/77% reduction) if this is approved.
Here's the link to review the document. The deer numbers start around page 65.
[http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdon...96-8EFB-F37BB8DF45CC/0/Ch2LicenseNumbers.pdf]
MSgt, USAF
1984 to present
I personally have never been to one of the DOW meetings, but the rumor is this document is usually appoved every year as it is written. If that happens, some tags (especially deer) are going to be much harder to come by in some GMUs this year!
Here is a snapshot of the 2007 tags that were available with the "proposed" state-wide 2008 numbers:
Deer/Archery/Either Sex: 2007/8550 2008/8150
Deer/Muzzle/Bucks: 2007/6041 2008/5571
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/2nd season: 2007/23,248 2008/16,102
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/3rd season: 2007/46,745 2008/10,681
Deer/Rifle/Bucks/4th season: 2007/3520 2008/3230
Some of the GMUs will stand to lose LOTS of tags this year if the plan is approved as written. The area I normally hunt is proposed to go to 805 tags in 2008 (from 1895 tags in 2007). That's a reduction of 1090 tags (57% loss).
The third season will get hit especially hard (a reduction of 36,000 tags/77% reduction) if this is approved.
Here's the link to review the document. The deer numbers start around page 65.
[http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdon...96-8EFB-F37BB8DF45CC/0/Ch2LicenseNumbers.pdf]
MSgt, USAF
1984 to present