Colorado Dropping Required Habitat Stamps for Hikers in State Wildlife Areas
By Rocky Thompson on June 4th, 2009
Colorado is doing away with an annoying law that made it tough to be legal while hiking into State Wildlife Areas. Vehicles were required to be tagged with a Habitat Stamp that would sell for about $10. Hunters and fishers will still need the tags, but hikers can enter free of charge. The stamps were sold at the same time as hunting and fishing licenses, so unless hikers went out of their way to pick one up well before hitting the backcountry they’d get fined if rangers happened by their vehicles. There was no way to buy one at the trailhead for hikers. If you still want to send in your $10 for the stamp, the State Wildlife Licensing people want you to know they’re happy to take your money, sucker.
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I would love to know how many folks were actually ticketed. Seeing as I get my fishing license checked once a decade, I am guessing very few.
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