Stories tagged with hunting

Fri Jan 14th, 2022

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation helps conserve prime wildlife habitat in Colorado

Hunters from the Pueblo of Laguna spent a week on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to take part in an approved cultural hunt. The visitors also brought with them baked goodies from home which were distributed to Southern Ute tribal elders.

Fri Nov 19th, 2021

Laguna Cultural Hunts

Elk populations have been on the decline in many parts of Colorado, raising concerns for wildlife biologists and avid sportsmen – concerned for the future of these herds.

Fri Aug 27th, 2021

RMEF, Partners dole out $1.3 Million for Colo. elk habitat

A bull elk harvested by Howard Richards Sr. adorns the Hall of Warriors in the Leonard C. Burch building. The elk mount recently had its fur cape replaced. The original fur had begun to deteriorate with age after 42 years. Howard’s daughter, Krista, harvested an elk and provided the new fur cape for her father’s mount.

Fri Feb 26th, 2021

Richards shares history of trophy bull elk

The wolf has been a part of the natural and cultural heritage of this region for thousands of years, and absent for only about the last 80 years following extermination by the federal government.

Fri Oct 9th, 2020

Wolf reintroduction reaches state ballot

Councilwoman Lorelei Cloud and Julian “Jube” Baker catch up with one another during the orientation for the 2019 Cow Elk Hunt. This hunt is opened to tribes from across Indian Country each year.

Thu Jan 17th, 2019

Hunters fill the casino

Southern Ute Wildlife Biologist, Aran Johnson explains the regulations and boundaries of the cultural hunt to the Tesuque hunters on Tuesday, Nov. 13 in the wildlife management conference room.

Tue Nov 20th, 2018

Cultural hunts commence on Ute lands

A record number of Southern Ute tribal members participated in this year's January Cow Elk Hunt, 40 in all. This is certainly related to the difficulty in finding scarce elk on the reservation during the regular tribal member seasons due to an unusually warm winter.

Fri Feb 2nd, 2018

Migration patterns shift with unseasonably warm weather, lack of snow

A rare leucistic – all-white – deer has been seen several times on the Southern Ute Reservation in mid-November by hunters and tribal staffers.

Fri Nov 22nd, 2013

Tribal Council extends special protection to rare white deer spotted on reservation

The deer is officially protected due it its “very high spiritual significance.”

Five young hunters from the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico met with members of the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council on Monday, Nov. 4 to share homemade gifts and express thanks for being allowed to hunt deer on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation. The deer is a sacred animal to the Laguna people.

Fri Nov 8th, 2013

Laguna youth to hunt on reservation

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