Strategic Plan

Progress Report

FY 2016-17

CPW’s Strategic Plan

1. Conserve wildlife and habitat to ensure healthy sustainable populations and ecosystems

2. Manage state parks for world class outdoor recreation

3. Achieve and maintain financial sustainability

4. Maintain dedicated personnel and volunteers

5. Increase awareness and trust for CPW

6. Connect people to Colorado’s outdoors.

Goals:

2016-2018 Operational Plan Goals

Benchmarks

Indicators (2-year)

Targets (quarterly)

Goal Benchmark Indicator Target

Goal 6: Connect people to Colorado’s outdoors

A marketing plan guides communication regarding programs

Development of comprehensive agency-wide marketing plan

Q2: Conduct internal brainstorming with staff andcollaborate with outside entities

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Methodology forreport

Goal Indicator Status

Goal 1: Conserve wildlife and habitat to ensure healthy sustainable populations and ecosystems

Evaluate the current state of herd management plans and the current planning process

Manage Colorado’s fisheries using management strategies by Statewide Water Category

Overall progress on indicators after FY 2016-2017

Work in progressOn track

Needs improvement

Challenges encountered

(multiple responses possible, n= 44)

Goal 1: Conserve wildlife and habitat

Updating our approach to herd management

planning

Conducted 1,250 fish population surveys &

10 fish harvest surveys

Completed 63 peer-reviewed

publications and reports

Did not meet targets for conserving

additional priority habitat

Goal 2: Manage state parks

• Developed online method for collecting maintenance information

• Establishing criteria to evaluate expansion of state parks

• Creating indicators of park resource management

Goal 3: Financial sustainability

• Supported House Bill 17-1321 & facilitated 22 public meetings

• Convening the Colorado Outdoor Partnership (Executive Summit)

• Adopted Sponsorships Policy

Goal 4: Personnel & volunteers

Using Insights Discovery tool

Engaged 5,994 volunteers (304,948 hours)

Offering supervisor & coaching skills training

Goal 5: Awareness & trust

Increasing awareness about wildlife management

Improving opportunities for involvement

Developing agency-wide communication plan

Goal 6: Connect people to Colorado’s outdoors

• Maintaining and improving public access to outdoor recreation

• Evaluating outreach programs

• Expanded Partners in the Outdoors conference

• Developing next 5-year Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP)

Looking ahead• Complete indicators by the end of FY 2017-2018

• Developing next 2-year operational plan this fall

Thank you!

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