Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of features about Park County history to run in the last Flume of each month.
As the 2011 second rifle hunting season for deer and elk comes to a close and the third rifle season begins in about a week, it seems a good time to look back on historical hunting practices in Park County and Colorado and how they brought about our current hunting laws.
Up until 1903, no license was required to hunt in Colorado and there was no limit on the time of year or amount of game taken. Nimrods (hunters) killed as many deer, elk, bison, antelope and bear as they could shoot, lasso or trap. If hunters were out looking for deer and found bear instead, they shot the bear. More in this week's Flume.
