1. Responsive Management Colorado Wildlife Law Enforcement Study Conducted for the Colorado Division of Wildlife Responsive Management April 2000

2. Responsive Management Methodology Telephone Survey Randomly selected: –Colorado Residents (N=405) –Resident Licensed Hunters (N=210) –Resident Licensed Anglers (N=205) Sampling Error at 95% Confidence Intervals –Colorado Residents (+/- 5%) –Resident Licensed Hunters (+/- 7%) –Resident Licensed Anglers (+/- 7%) Those interviewed closely matched the geographic and demographic distribution of Colorado’s population

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43. Major Findings 1.Colorado hunters, anglers and residents felt that the Division was doing a good to excellent job enforcing the wildlife laws of the state. 2.Colorado Wildlife Officers performed their duties in a professional manner. 3.Penalties for breaking wildlife laws in Colorado were about right to too low. 4.Colorado residents wanted more law enforcement efforts overall. 5.Colorado hunters, anglers and residents who had contact with an Officer, stated that the Officer they came in contact with was professional, courteous, knowledgeable and fair.

44. Responsive Management On the other hand… 1.Colorado hunters, anglers and residents stated that there were a lot of wildlife laws being broken and that these laws were being broken consciously. 2.Most of the people who felt there were a lot of laws being violated believed that the law being broken most often was harvest-related. 3.Overall, Colorado hunters, anglers and residents believed that violators of wildlife laws were seldom or never caught. 4.Although many hunters and anglers had heard of Operation Game Thief (OGT), and many hunters and anglers had observed a wildlife violation, few of them had ever called OGT to report a violation.

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