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DOW packs March calendar with hunters education

Daily News staff report

DENVER – With the April 5 limited license application deadline looming, the Colorado Division of Wildlife and volunteer hunter education instructors are offering more than 100 hunter education classes statewide in March. Since 1970, the agency has required anyone born after 1948 to take hunter education before applying to hunt in Colorado.

Classes range from large classes like the one offered at the division’s Denver headquarters to rural offerings throughout the month in towns like Meeker, Trinidad and Antonito.

“Our goal is to make it as convenient as possible for people who need these classes to find one and complete one,” said Mark Cousins, hunter education coordinator for the Division of Wildlife.



A complete list of upcoming hunter education courses is available online at http://wildlife.state.co.us/Hunting/

HunterEducation/CourseCalendar/.



Beyond traditional hunter education classes the division is also offering Internet-based courses which allow students to conduct some of the coursework online to help fit busy schedules or allow parents to work with their children. These classes aren’t completely online as they still require a minimum of four hours of classroom time with an instructor, a live-fire session and a written exam to complete the course. Other hunter education courses are also offered specifically for youth, women or college-aged students.

“We recognize that people learn differently and in different environments,” Cousins explained. “The important thing is that people find a class that fits their schedule and complete the course. Hunter education is for everyone interested in the outdoors and wildlife.”

Colorado began requiring hunter education in 1970 after an average of nine hunting-related fatalities each year through the 1960s. By the 1990s, hunting-related fatalities had dropped to about one per year in the state.


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