Board Meeting 05/03/1985

• Board Meeting Date: 5/3/1985
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums May 3, 1985
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

• 33-2-101 Wildlife and Parks and Outdoor Recreation 18
(2) Prior to 1984, the substantive provisions of this article were contained in article 8 of this
title. (For the historical record of this article and article 8 of this title prior to 1984, see said
articles as contained in the original Volume 14,Colorado Revised Statutes 1973,including amend-
ments thereto through L.83 as contained in cumulative supplements to said volume.)
33-2-101. Short title. 33-2-105. Endangered or threatened spe-
33-2-102. Legislative declaration. cies.
33-2-103. Definition. 33-2-106. Management programs.
33-2-104. Nongame species. 33-2-107. Regulations.
33-2-108. Funding.
33-2-101. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as the
"Nongame, Endangered, or Threatened Species Conservation Act".
Source: R & RE, L. 84, p. 862, § 1.
33-2-102. Legislative declaration. The general assembly finds and declares
that it is the policy of this state to manage all nongame wildlife, recognizing
the private property rights of individual property owners, for human enjoy-
ment and welfare, for scientific purposes, and to insure their perpetuation
as members of ecosystems; that species or subspecies of wildlife indigenous
to this state which may be found to be endangered or threatened within the
state should be accorded protection in order to maintain and enhance their
numbers to the extent possible; that this state should assist in the protection
of species or subspecies of wildlife which are deemed to be endangered or
threatened elsewhere; and that adequate funding be made available to the
division annually by appropriations from the general fund.
• Source: R & RE, L. 84, p. 862, § 1.
33-2-103. Definition. As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) "Management" means the collection and application of biological
information for the purposes of increasing the number of individuals within
species and populations of wildlife up to the optimum carrying capacity of
their habitat and maintaining such levels. The term includes the entire range
of activities that constitute a modern, scientific resource program including,
but not limited to, research, census, law enforcement, habitat acquisition and
improvement, and education. Also included within the term, when and where
appropriate, is the periodic or total protection of species or populations.
"Management" may include artificial propagation to maintain threatened or
endangered species populations, in concert with the exercise of water rights,
and may also include restriction of stocking of species which are in competi-
tion with threatened or endangered species for the available habitat.
Source: R &RE, L. 84, p. 863, § 1.
33-2-104. Nongame species. (1) The division shall conduct investigations
on nongame wildlife in order to develop information relating to population,
distribution, habitat needs, limiting factors, and other biological and ecologi-
cal data to determine management measures necessary for their continued
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