Hello COSA community,
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) is pleased to announce the Colorado Wildlife Habitat Program (CWHP) 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP). The CWHP is a statewide program that offers funding opportunities to landowners who wish to protect wildlife habitat on their property and/or provide wildlife-related recreational public access.
The CWHP is an incentive-based program that funds conservation easements, public access easements, and fee title to accomplish strategic wildlife conservation and public access goals.
Funding for the 2025 cycle is $11million and is made possible by revenue generated by the sale of the Habitat Stamp, hunting and fishing licenses, and through CPW’s cooperative partnership with Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO).
To apply: the landowner or third party representative must complete application forms which address one or more of the following:
2025 funding priorities
- *Acquiring significant public access for hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing
- *Protecting big game winter range and migration corridors
- *Protecting habitat for species of concern (specifically those Species of Greatest Conservation Need, as identified in CPW’s State Wildlife Action Plan)
- *Protecting riparian areas and wetlands
- *Landscape-scale parcels
- *Parcels that provide connectivity to other conserved lands
2025 funding preferences
*Properties that include Lesser Prairie Chicken habitat
- *Properties that exhibit biodiversity
- *Properties that fall within CPW’s Habitat Conservation and Connectivity Plan’s (HCCP) Priority Landscapes
- *Provides public Right of Way across private land to provide public access to landlocked public land
- *Working farms and ranches
- *Properties that support wildlife crossings
Application materials are available on the CWHP’s webpage, HERE.
All proposals must be received by 5pm on Thursday, October 9, 2025.
Applicants should contact the CWHP manager before submitting an application. It is also strongly encouraged that applicants and/or partners reach out to local CPW staff. Local CPW office contact information can be found HERE.
For additional information about the CWHP or application process, please contact:
Amanda Nims, CWHP Manager
303-291-7269
amanda.nims
Thank you!