Changes come to Harvest Information Program
Colorado Parks & Wildlife/Courtesy
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is changing how hunters register with the Harvest Information Program for the upcoming small game hunting season.
Beginning this month, hunters can complete their HIP survey when they purchase a license at CPWshop.com or a CPW office.
This change will bring the HIP registration process into CPW’s Integrated Parks and Wildlife System, launched in 2017, that created a one-stop shop for all CPW products, including hunting and fishing licenses, campsite reservations, OHV and snowmobile permits.
If a small game license is purchased at an external license agent, HIP survey must be completed through the online account at CPWshop.com before hunting small game. Later this year, an automated phone service will be available for hunters to register with HIP.
Colorado requires all small game hunters to sign up with HIP to help CPW better estimate harvest for species that are difficult to assess through a general small game survey. HIP is a joint U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and CPW program designed to improve small game and migratory bird harvest estimates.
If buying a small game license only as a qualifying license for the big game application period and will not hunt small game in Colorado in 2024-25, the hunter does not register with HIP.
For more, CPW.state.co.us/thingstodo/Pages/HIP.aspx.
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