Outdoors

    In order to ensure an enjoyable and safe summer, protect yourself and your children by taking these simple precautions when engaging in recreational activities involving water.

    While it may not be prime hunting and fishing time, the day is drawing close for filing of state and federal income tax returns. This is chance to support Colorado nongame animals and wildlife with a modest “Check-Off” contribution on our state tax return.

    Local governments and community organizations have an opportunity to obtain some of the $1.7 million in Colorado Parks and Wildlife Division grant money for public shooting range site, fishing facilities and boating use area improvements.

    There was no consistency in the nation’s weather this year. Droughts scarred much of Texas, other Southwestern states and some Midwest areas. Other regions suffered damaging floods. Contrast this with the unusually abundant snow pack in the Rocky Mountain chain through Colorado north to the Canadian prairie providences of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the two primary wetlands regions Colorado Central Flyway waterfowl nest in each spring.