2019 Statewide Deer Harvest - Colorado Parks and Wildlife

2019 Colorado Deer Harvest Estimates

Contents

2019 Deer Data Analysis Unit (DAU) Map ......................................................................... 2 Methodology .......................................................................................................... 3 2019 Deer Hunters, Harvest and Recreation Days for All Seasons By DAU with 95% Confidence Intervals ............................................................................................................... 4 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Manners of Take..................................5 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Rifle Seasons ...................................... 8 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All High Country Rifle Seasons ................... 11 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Plains Rifle Seasons (Includes PLOs)......... 12 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Percent Success for All Plains Rifle Seasons (Includes PLOs) ......... 13 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Ranching for Wildlife Seasons ................ 15 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for Early and Late Seasons (Includes PLOs) ......... 15 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for 2nd Rifle Seasons.................................... 17 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for 3rd Rifle Seasons .................................... 19 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for 4th Rifle Seasons .................................... 22 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Archery Seasons ................................ 23 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Muzzleloader Seasons.......................... 27 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Percent Success for All Muzzleloader Seasons.......................... 30 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Whitetail Only Seasons ........................ 33 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Whitetail Only Archery Seasons .............. 34 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Whitetail Only Muzzleloader Seasons ....... 35 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Whitetail Only Rifle Seasons.................. 36 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Season Choice Seasons ........................ 37 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for Season Choice Seasons by Manner of Take ..... 37 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Bosque del Oso Seasons ....................... 38 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Exurban Seasons................................ 38 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Damage, Auction/Raffle & Misc. Hunts ..... 38 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Percent Success for 2nd Rifle Seasons (Does Not Include PLOs) ...... 40 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Percent Success for 3rd Rifle Seasons (Does Not Include PLOs) ...... 42 2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Percent Success for 4th Rifle Seasons (Does Not Include PLOs) ...... 44

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2019 Deer Data Analysis Unit (DAU) Map

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Methodology

Revenue, licensing, and management of Colorado's deer, elk and pronghorn populations rely on information Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) collects annually from hunters. Thousands of Colorado hunting license-holders voluntarily provide this information in what is referred to as the Big Game Harvest Survey. How this survey, and specifically the answers hunters provide to questionnaires supports wildlife management decisions and license setting is both complicated and not widely understood. However, season setting and license allocation do rely on the Big Game Harvest Survey, as do hunters to determine when and how to hunt big game.

Here is how it works. Each year, CPW contracts a third party vendor to conduct the Big Game Harvest Survey. Email/online and live operator telephone based questionnaires collect general harvest and participation information for all seasons and manners of take at a Data Analysis Unit (DAU) level. Each DAU represents a geographic area that a specific herd will utilize throughout the year and consists of one or more Game Management Units (GMU). GMUs are used to control hunter distribution in each DAU, which is accomplished through the use of established hunts and license setting. By collecting and analyzing hunter survey responses at the DAU level, CPW can increase precision in reporting and analysis.

In 2019, the sale of hunting and fishing licenses generated more than $104 million in revenue for CPW and more than 61% of this revenue came from deer, elk and pronghorn license sales. CPW sold approximately 347,000 deer, elk and pronghorn licenses for nearly 2,800 different hunts. Hunts held between August 15, 2019 and January 31, 2020 that were available to the general public through the limited license draws, Landowner Preference Program (LPP) vouchers, Over-The-Counter, and Leftover sales were included in the annual Big Game Harvest Survey. To ensure all hunts were included in the DAU estimates, the Big Game Harvest Survey used stratified random sampling of licenses based on hunt code, residency and/or hunter age group. This voluntary sample based survey allows CPW to estimate harvest more cost effectively and without the penalties for noncompliance necessary with a mandatory survey. In total, 330,396 licenses were sold for hunts included in the 2019 harvest survey resulting in 170,973 deer, elk and pronghorn licenses being sampled overall.

In addition, 95,017 licenses were sold for the 952 deer hunts included in the annual harvest survey. However, 22 of those licenses had invalid contact information at the time of sampling and were not included in the sample. The random sampling resulted in 45,093 deer licenses being selected for the annual harvest survey. At the end of data collection, 21,128 deer surveys had been completed resulting in a 47 percent overall response rate.

The harvest figures are estimates of harvest and participation extrapolated by comparing survey responses to licenses sold. The DAU estimates are followed by the standard error (SE) of the estimate, which is a measure of the precision of the estimate. The 95% Lower Confidence Limit (LCL) and 95% Upper Confidence Limit (UCL) columns provide the upper and lower values for the 95% confidence limits around the estimate. For example, we estimated total harvest of deer for DAU D-2 at 4,496 with a SE of 122. The 95% confidence interval estimates that between 4,263 and 4,742 deer were harvested in D-2 during the 2019 big game season.

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2019 Deer Hunters, Harvest and Recreation Days for All Seasons By DAU with 95% Confidence Intervals

DAU

D-1 D-2 D-3 D-4 D-5 D-6 D-7 D-8 D-9 D-10 D-11 D-12 D-13 D-14 D-15 D-16 D-17 D-18 D-19 D-20 D-21 D-22 D-23 D-24 D-25 D-26 D-27 D-28 D-29 D-30 D-31 D-32 D-33 D-34 D-35 D-36 D-37 D-38 D-40 D-41 D-42 D-43 D-44 D-45 D-46 D-47 D-48 D-49 D-50 D-51 D-52 D-53 D-54 D-55

estimate

103 7615 665 5354 1608

51 5701 4692 9803 1637 685 2751 1263 235 1111 2283 2260 378 1491 693 357 577 194 2560 532 777 1976 1592 1076 5126 245 1149 444 3130 1049 372 290 1028 1227 617 1450 2472 1799 986 1021 1146 788 2035 939 1299 1023 635 1521 867

Total Hunters

SE LCL

1

100

97 7426

11 643

58 5242

42 1528

0

51

65 5575

53 4589

108 9593

48 1544

0

685

54 2648

0 1263

5

225

40 1036

69 2152

37 2190

7

365

17 1459

9

676

8

342

5

568

6

183

0 2560

3

527

0

777

42 1896

36 1524

0 1076

0 5126

3

240

24 1102

0

444

65 3006

0 1049

8

356

10 271

0 1028

0 1227

0

617

30 1392

0 2472

28 1746

18 951

17 988

14 1118

22 746

49 1941

13 914

33 1236

14 995

14 608

35 1454

10 848

UCL

105 7808 687 5469 1691

51 5830 4797 10018 1735 685 2859 1263 246 1192 2422 2333 391 1523 710 372 587 206 2560 537 777 2060 1663 1076 5126 250 1198 444 3260 1049 388 310 1028 1227 617 1510 2472 1854 1022 1054 1174 832 2133 966 1364 1052 663 1591 886

estimate

72 4496 270 1421 638

41 2590 1275 2586 623 414 941 517 115 373 943 868 262 678 387 163 287

66 975 320 342 401 649 546 1968 207 505 166 1255 337 222 113 378 410 326 297 568 787 398 440 500 389 965 415 685 396 297 818 426

Total Harvest

SE LCL

3

67

122 4263

13 245

81 1270

41 562

1

39

96 2409

80 1128

123 2355

58 520

17 382

73 809

29 464

8

100

37 308

70 817

51 773

12 239

35 614

16 357

15 136

15 260

7

54

51 880

14 294

22 302

31 345

26 600

30 491

81 1817

4

199

33 444

11 146

75 1116

30 284

12 200

12

92

28 327

31 354

18 292

35 235

35 502

35 720

20 360

21 402

21 460

23 346

61 852

21 376

43 606

23 354

20 261

36 750

23 383

UCL

78 4742 297 1589 724

44 2785 1441 2839 747 448 1094 577 133 452 1090 975 286 750 421 196 318

80 1081 348 387 467 703 607 2133 215 574 189 1412 401 247 138 437 476 363 375 641 859 440 482 542 437 1093 458 774 443 339 893 474

Percent Success

70.2 59 40.6 26.5 39.7 81.3 45.4 27.2 26.4 38.1 60.4 34.2 41 49.1 33.6 41.3 38.4 69.2 45.5 55.9 45.6 49.8 33.8 38.1 60.1 44 20.3 40.8 50.7 38.4 84.4 43.9 37.4 40.1 32.1 59.7 38.9 36.8 33.5 52.8 20.5 23 43.7 40.4 43.1 43.6 49.4 47.4 44.2 52.7 38.7 46.9 53.8 49.1

estimate

518 27922 3244 21971 5459

268 26778 21004 39196 9941 3620 14576 6399 1332 5016 9071 13392 1810 8280 3446 1774 3195 1058 14324 2942 3870 9849 8925 4684 24212

508 5673 1736 12797 5420 1958 1416 5279 5669 2857 8781 10897 8750 4580 3374 4414 4278 12676 4725 6519 5903 3271 6772 3556

Total Days

SE

LCL

25 701 130 673 305 14 578 499 882 886 145 541 117 59 267 430 754 84 233 101 82 99 62 282 85 116 465 646 167 433 24 279 74 560 148 85 75 220 81 97 529 199 407 283 227 154 445 1202 224 361 180 127 480 194

471 26582 2998 20691 4894

242 25670 20049 37505 8349 3346 13553 6174 1220 4520 8266 11994 1652 7835 3252 1620 3006

943 13782 2780 3648 8980 7746 4367 23378

464 5152 1598 11746 5137 1798 1276 4865 5512 2672 7804 10514 7988 4058 2958 4123 3491 10531 4306 5848 5561 3031 5894 3196

UCL

570 29330 3510 23331 6090

296 27934 22005 40964 11835 3916 15675 6633 1454 5566 9954 14953 1983 8750 3650 1942 3396 1186 14887 3112 4105 10803 10284 5024 25075

557 6248 1887 13943 5719 2131 1571 5729 5831 3053 9881 11295 9585 5168 3848 4727 5243 15259 5185 7266 6267 3530 7781 3956

Sample Rate

1.000 0.314 0.862 0.308 0.564

Response Rate

0.602 0.481 0.563 0.472 0.399

0.382 0.352 0.255 0.364 0.665 0.326 0.554 0.891 0.639 0.340 0.464 0.804 0.576 0.827 0.622 0.792 0.887 0.484 0.818 0.547 0.521 0.831 0.557 0.403 1.000 0.552 0.950 0.334 0.489 0.800 0.745 0.505 0.525 0.686 0.404 0.515 0.695 0.874 0.748 0.843 0.739 0.437 0.671 0.481 0.756 0.668 0.652 0.661

0.480 0.455 0.487 0.482 0.491 0.445 0.514 0.537 0.445 0.458 0.473 0.500 0.469 0.489 0.498 0.541 0.447 0.454 0.530 0.471 0.478 0.443 0.422 0.478 0.447 0.450 0.449 0.450 0.478 0.521 0.508 0.469 0.463 0.467 0.428 0.505 0.421 0.440 0.470 0.434 0.453 0.439 0.475 0.442 0.441 0.494 0.420 0.450

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2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Manners of Take

Unit

1 2 201 3 301 4 441 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 211 12 13 131 231 14 214 15 16 161 17 171 18 181 19 191 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 361 37 371 38 39 391 40 41 411

Bucks

11 21 40 1,113 558 1,001 216 254 90 86 103 72 40 632 362 378 243 11 30 142 64 390 49 67 35 30 542 153 240 391 498 322 477 199 86 214 126 181 318 138 68 254 63 243 66 335 184 56 281 66 148 105 38 260 266 34

Does

0 0 0 418 106 216 42 96 0 133 111 85 0 29 24 31 23 6 8 86 31 96 0 0 0 0 265 161 85 95 117 0 18 13 12 87 44 114 210 58 25 0 8 47 10 22 34 11 150 30 53 116 40 0 30 61

Fawns

0 0 0 25 0 30 0 9 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 13 0 9 9 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 34 6 3 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 16 0 5 10 0 0 0 4

Total Harvest

11 21 40 1,556 664 1,247 258 359 90 219 218 164 40 661 386 412 266 17 38 241 95 486 49 67 35 30 861 327 325 495 624 322 495 212 98 302 176 295 562 202 96 254 71 298 76 357 223 67 447 96 206 231 78 260 296 99

Total Hunters

13 37 53 2,299 1,021 2,233 565 509 171 1,449 1,236 348 50 1,138 709 1,056 477 90 141 531 364 1,617 121 158 114 101 3,657 1,017 1,058 1,263 1,635 432 835 882 366 1,077 634 1,008 2,242 771 253 470 148 1,450 746 1,310 1,164 210 1,485 391 1,207 710 259 375 734 255

Percent Success

85 57 75 68 65 56 46 71 53 15 18 47 80 58 54 39 56 19 27 45 26 30 40 42 31 30 24 32 31 39 38 75 59 24 27 28 28 29 25 26 38 54 48 21 10 27 19 32 30 25 17 33 30 69 40 39

Total Rec. Days

73 205 240 7,884 2,989 8,880 2,259 1,678 904 6,714 5,805 1,660 268 5,116 2,542 5,354 1,831 533 694 2,315 1,645 8,554 505 683 699 450 15,211 3,772 3,887 3,907 9,941 2,077 4,411 4,361 1,900 4,722 2,522 3,697 8,902 4,004 1,545 2,142 714 8,783 3,638 5,686 4,344 1,054 5,960 1,655 5,847 3,959 2,147 1,806 3,710 1,314

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2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Manners of Take

Unit

42 421

43 44 444 45 46 461 47 471 48 481 49 50 500 501 51 511 512 52 521 53 54 55 551 56 561 57 58 581 59 591 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 681 682 69 691 70 71 711 72 73 74 741 75 751 76 77 771

Bucks

324 297 348 98 260 117 66 99 127 22 16 104 307 99 14 186 235 183 18 278 205 193 165 177 109 93 64 71 172 235 55 51 61 99 475 147 152 239 191 129 167 158

7 416 15 576 91 292 364 140 118 237 376 244 45 456 245

Does

12 13 22 19 40 26 17 96 0 0 15 61 54 0 9 65 37 71 4 95 1 23 0 0 0 14 6 20 28 57 14 17 3 0 100 25 15 5 0 0 0 8 0 75 11 17 0 0 25 19 0 43 138 27 0 24 34

Fawns

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 3 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0

Total Harvest

336 310 370 117 300 143 83 195 127 22 31 165 361 99 23 254 278 257 22 380 206 216 165 177 109 107 70 91 200 292 71 68 64 99 580 172 167 244 191 129 167 166

7 491 26 593 91 292 389 159 118 280 514 271 45 483 279

Total Percent

Total

Hunters Success Rec. Days

990

34

1,027

30

918

40

239

49

635

47

395

36

337

25

436

45

248

51

102

22

263

12

362

46

906

40

349

28

98

23

580

44

520

53

485

53

30

73

666

57

378

54

337

64

358

46

345

51

232

47

288

37

203

34

288

32

520

38

571

51

210

34

223

30

193

33

238

42

1,252

46

357

48

473

35

754

32

262

73

269

48

375

45

391

42

13

54

1,276

38

98

27

1,451

41

475

19

634

46

661

59

417

38

422

28

601

47

1,256

41

803

34

87

52

1,344

36

589

47

5,097 5,772 4,926 1,375 3,272 1,368 1,536 3,178 1,017 458 1,206 1,599 3,593 1,737 660 2,883 2,577 2,144

34 3,191 2,013 1,634 1,779 1,846 1,352 1,442 770 803 2,128 2,550 718 1,835 1,059 1,468 6,813 1,811 2,049 3,622 1,334 1,605 1,746 2,056

68 5,115 241 8,279 2,623 3,426 2,702 1,982 2,649 3,256 5,771 3,591 558 6,978 2,545

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2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Manners of Take

Unit

78 79 791 80 81 82 83 84 85 851 86 861 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 951 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 132

Bucks

361 145

3 167 151 112 72 384 274 71 139 36 53 70 106 42 58 37 49 49 118 122 111 27 167 146 76 105 175 35 224 254 54 153 107 68 55 49

7 37 17 110 47 9 37 27 32 64 28 41 21 53 60 44 18 18 53

Does

63 21 8 5 16 0 65 139 34 0 29 12 17 16 65 81 99 41 43 19 48 55 118 19 103 128 41 45 97 71 310 77 21 52 49 39 33 9 2 2 13 26 18 17 3 10 15 35 34 11 52 32 24 36 40 5 28

Fawns

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 3 2 8 1 19 11 2 6 11 9 36 0 0 12 4 2 4 22 16 6 0 8 14 0 4 3 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 6 13 0 6 2 0 0 0 3 8

Total Harvest

424 166 11 172 167 112 140 526 308 71 168 48 73 88 179 124 176 89 94 74 177 186 265 46 270 286 121 152 276 128 550 337 75 213 170 107 92 61

9 39 32 139 67 26 40 37 47 105 75 52 79 87 84 80 58 26 89

Total Percent

Total

Hunters Success Rec. Days

1,139

37

260

64

25

44

597

29

455

37

291

38

162

86

1,167

45

751

41

129

55

470

36

119

40

239

31

238

37

457

39

267

46

382

46

306

29

181

52

197

38

404

44

310

60

607

44

90

51

487

55

537

53

230

53

315

48

551

50

331

39

1,122

49

703

48

202

37

408

52

402

42

227

47

139

66

130

47

83

11

114

34

77

42

266

52

150

45

95

27

75

53

103

36

108

44

242

43

128

59

125

42

228

35

235

37

209

40

252

32

125

46

95

27

172

52

5,331 1,258 142 2,995 2,426 1,416 337 4,626 3,873 543 2,119 698 1,045 672 1,448 949 1,442 1,624 1,069 1,093 1,346 1,541 3,050 274 2,293 2,391 748 1,217 2,337 1,250 9,244 2,776 636 1,152 1,581 1,834 705 853 234 338 245 1,090 497 302 362 238 316 1,082 537 542 1,373 1,261 873 1,259 743 465 919

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2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Manners of Take

Unit

133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147

Total

Bucks

5 46 9 52 25 13 66 119 20 25 45 38 39 29 13

28,310

Does

6 6 12 16 6 5 22 5 5 9 12 16 11 11 7

7,502

Fawns

0 2 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 6 0

577

Total Harvest

11 54 23 71 31 18 88 124 25 36 60 56 50 46 20

36,389

Total Hunters

47 83 84 175 52 31 173 261 40 78 155 175 117 158 70

92,483

Percent Success

23 65 27 41 60 58 51 48 63 46 39 32 43 29 29

39

Total Rec. Days

289 477 355 617 194 119 1,059 1,245 150 431 625 630 484 1,592 203

429,418

2019 Deer Harvest, Hunters and Recreation Days for All Rifle Seasons

Unit

1 2 201 3 301 4 441 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 211 12 13 131 231 14 214 15 16 161 17 171 18 181 19 191 20 21 22 23

Bucks

11 16 34 1,096 552 982 206 239 70 63 55 63 37 622 352 362 233 11 26 121 39 367 40 58 31 26 457 141 203 372 470 295 456 161

Does

0 0 0 397 83 202 42 89 0 57 74 67 0 29 20 23 23 2 0 44 23 62 0 0 0 0 253 144 50 86 95 0 14 4

Fawns

0 0 0 25 0 30 0 9 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 13 0 9 9 0 0 0

Total Harvest

11 16 34 1,518 635 1,214 248 337 70 120 133 137 37 651 372 385 256 13 26 178 62 429 40 58 31 26 764 298 253 467 574 295 470 165

Total Percent

Total

Hunters Success Rec. Days

13

85

73

24

67

122

40

85

123

2,214

69

7,428

954

67

2,779

2,121

57

8,227

524

47

2,015

440

77

1,269

103

68

389

682

18

2,751

723

18

2,814

252

54

1,358

40

93

163

1,084

60

4,861

683

54

2,392

932

41

4,592

435

59

1,477

69

19

355

80

33

348

378

47

1,270

273

23

1,005

1,300

33

6,299

97

41

357

112

52

461

77

40

321

79

33

342

2,913

26

11,098

862

35

3,095

734

34

2,563

1,066

44

3,271

1,300

44

7,918

360

82

1,622

748

63

3,841

689

24

3,246

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