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The Bellvue-Watson Fish Hatchery is a Colorado Parks and Wildlife cold water fish production facility located near Cache la Poudre River and Watson Lake State Wildlife Area in Larimer County, Colorado. Hatchery staff works to support the raising of approximately 1.5 million sub-catchable trout annually.
The Poudre Rearing Unit is a Colorado Parks and Wildlife cold water fish production facility located near Cache la Poudre River at the base of South Bald Mountain in Larimer County. It is considered one of the smaller units in Colorado .
The name, Cache la Poudre (French for 'Hide the Powder'), [5] is a corruption of the original Cache à la Poudre, [6] or "cache of powder". It refers to an incident in the 1820s when French trappers, caught by a snowstorm, were forced to bury part of their gunpowder along the banks of the river.
The Colorado state wildlife areas are managed for hunting, fishing, observation, management, and preservation of wildlife. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife division of the U.S. State of Colorado manages more than 300 state wildlife areas with a total area of more than 860 square miles (2,230 km 2) in the state. [1]
1963 – State Parks was merged with the Division of Wildlife. 1971 – The State Recreational Trails Program was created. 1972 – State Parks and the Division of Wildlife were separated. 1977 – State Parks was requested to manage the snowmobile program for the state. 1984 – State Parks became responsible for licensing river outfitters.
Through the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Act of 2001, the site was established as a national wildlife refuge while cleanup of the site was underway. With oversight from the EPA and Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE), the DOE completed the $7 billion cleanup in 2005. The DOE still maintains 1,300 acres as ...
The South Fork Cache la Poudre River is a 27.0-mile-long (43.5 km) [2] tributary of the Cache la Poudre River in Larimer County, Colorado. The river's source is in the Mummy Range of Rocky Mountain National Park .
The U.S. State of Colorado has designated 96 natural areas of the state for special protection, as of 2023. [1] [2] The Colorado Natural Areas Program was established in 1977 to preserve and protect special areas of the state with distinctive flora, fauna, ecological, geological, and paleontologic features.