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Parks & Wildlife — Property Acquisition & Improvements

Land acquisition and improvements for parks and wildlife access, statewide (capital expansion). Statewide. Timeline FY 2026-27.

Money in FACT
Est. total cost
$12.1M
Result so far
Funded. What this stage means

Funded. The state approved or set aside money for this project. The main work is still to start.

The stages, in order

  1. Requested An agency asked. No money yet.
  2. Funded Money approved. Work still to start. This project
  3. Underway Work started. Money goes out.
  4. Complete Work complete.

Halted Work stopped before the end.

This stage is our reading of the sources at the foot of this page, last read 24 September 2026.

Timeline FY 2026-27

Still open PENDING
Spend to date

Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project.

FACT A Honesty Framework The label says how we know the figure. The grade rates the source record, not the project. The grade rates the source record, not the project.

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One of only two projects over $10M in the enacted FY 2026-27 capital bill outside controlled maintenance and CSU Clark — and it is paid by sportsmen's license fees, not the General Fund.

Open questions for the state (1)
ANALYSIS
  • Which properties will be acquired, and what public access do they open?

Total cost and spending
Total project cost$12.1M

Total cost & funding are drawn from the official record(s) listed below.

Spend-to-date: not published. Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project, so this field is left blank rather than estimated. TOPS, the state’s spending ledger, has no project field, so it cannot show what was spent on one project.

Milestones (2)
  • Enacted in HB26-1410 Section 3, Part II (capital expansion)
  • Specific acquisitions — determined by CPW during the year

Who is being paid
FACT
Funding sourceWildlife Cash Fund — hunter & angler license fees, not general tax dollars.
A program, not a single contract: roughly ten separate real-estate transactions identified annually by CPW — no single vendor.

Sources and receipts (1)

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Parks & Wildlife — Property Acquisition & Improvements

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