The Colorado 2025 wildfire season consumed more than 230,000 acres of forests, sagebrush and grassland areas, which will affect the hunting seasons.

Colorado's big game hunting season started on Sept. 2 with rifle bear and archery. Muzzleloader season starts Sept. 13, with rifle seasons starting next month.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials agreed it is a bad fire season but added it won't impact as many hunting areas as previous seasons.

"While we have seen some impacts to hunters, they are minimal to what we saw during 2020, when the Cameron Peak, Grizzly Creek, Williams Fork, Pine Gulch and East Troublesome fires were actively burning over large areas during the major hunting seasons," Rachael Gonzales, Northwest Region public information officer, said via email. "For the upcomin

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