State biologists recommend a decrease in hunting licenses in Northwest Colorado

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Tom Skulski

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Elk brave the cold weather off of U.S. Highway 40 east of Steamboat Springs on Dec. 22, 2022. Elk and other big game have struggled this winter and have migrated further westward, forcing Colorado Parks and Wildlife to consider limiting hunting licenses for the 2023 hunting season.
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As the intense winter weather continues, thousands of big game wildlife in Northwest Colorado have been forced to migrate farther west than ever before.

If the area populations continue to thin without return, Colorado Parks and Wildlife may decrease hunting license permits for the 2023 season.

The mortality rates of big game are the highest the area has seen since the mid-1980s, according to CPW, and what started as a catastrophic winter for younger animals has begun to affect the adult antelope, deers and elk as well.

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