Colorado Largest Juniper Pinon Forest

bigmuleyboy · Feb 7, 2013

My question is where is the largest juniper pinon forest in Colorado? Is there any place where there is no one homesteading or pulling up a claim or parcel of property? To me it seems everywhere you drive in Colorado someone owns the property or there is human occupancy all over even out in the boon docks. So my question is: "Is there any forest regions that are not somehow occupied with human habitancy? Any primitive forests around Colorado. The state is huge but everywhere I go I see a homestead claim? Just trying to get some feed back.

ColoradoOak · Feb 7, 2013

http://ndis1.nrel.colostate.edu/cogap/

HiMtnHntr · Feb 7, 2013

There are lots of places in CO with continuous tracts of un-occuppied forests. As far as pinyon juniper you'd be looking at the western half of the state all the way from north to south. There are some big tracts of P/J forests there. Many of these forests are growing, much to the dismay of wildlife officials. But, if you think you're going to find an "Arizona Strip" in CO, it don't exist . . .

SoleSearcher36 · Feb 8, 2013

Real solid, accrate infor from the previous two posters. Plenty of P&J out there that is public. With ample deer and elk tags in the fall, shed hunters in the spring and spandex clad yuppies on mountain bikes in the summer. But it smells real nice out there!

SoleSearcher36 · Feb 8, 2013

Oh yeah.....and plenty of wild horses you can take pictures of...

ColoradoRam · Feb 9, 2013

>http://ndis1.nrel.colostate.edu/cogap/

I've been trying to find this for about 4 years. Thanks!

bigmuleyboy · Feb 9, 2013

>>http://ndis1.nrel.colostate.edu/cogap/
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>I've been trying to find this
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Thanks everyone for the insight!. The website given on the GAP analysis project is kind of what I was looking for too. I hunted units 11, 22 and found hunters everywhere on the muzzy deer hunt in 2010. I was a little suprised? There were numerous hunts going on at the time. The natural gas companies kind of dominated the habitat and the surroundings in unit 22.