Colorado Wildlife Commission to meet in Denver

DENVER —  The Colorado Wildlife Commission will hold its regular March meeting in Denver on March 13 in the Hunter Education Building at the Colorado Division of Wildlife Headquarters, 6060 Broadway. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and run through 4:15 p.m.

Agenda items include the following topics:

• Emergency regulations to protect division-controlled properties and the state's aquatic resources located there from adverse impacts associated with aquatic nuisance species, including zebra mussels.

• Finalizing regulations pertaining to surveillance and disease-free certification for aquatic importers and in-state producers regarding Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus. This includes requiring all live fish imported into or transported within Colorado to be accompanied by a health certificate from their source facility.

• Fishing regulations are open for annual review, including seasons and season dates, bag and possession limits, licensing requirements, manner of take (i.e. modification of regulations allowing scented flies or lures 1.5 inches or longer on select "flies and lures only" waters). 

• A citizen petition will be introduced for banning the shooting of prairie dogs.  

• Consideration of mandatory bowhunter education for archery hunters.

A full agenda for the March Commission meeting is available online at: www.wildlife.state.co.us/WildlifeCommission/Archives/2008/March13.htm.