Responding to impacts on agriculture in the area, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is considering allowing limited hunting of pronghorn in the North Fruita Desert.

The proposal is one of a dozen proposed big game hunting regulations in northwest Colorado for which the agency is seeking public input via an online survey.

According to background information included in the survey, the pronghorn herd in question is an extension of the Southern Bookcliffs herd in Utah and has been supplemented by translocations conducted by what was then the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The herd was hunted with reasonable success from 1958 to 1962 but the hunting was then ended due to a dwindling population. Western Colorado

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