This is NOT to be considered legal advice, but is provided to help you make up your own mind regarding your situation. I would agree that nobody at the DOW seems to care much about herps. It's too bad, really.



Below is a link to the State of CO Division of Wildlife non-game regulations. You may have up to 12 wild-collected hognose snakes from the State of Colorado in your posession, so long as no more than 4 were collected in a given year after 1998.

Ch.10 - CO Non-game Regs



This is a link the the State's Exotic Animal Regulations:

Ch.11 - Exotics



The Chapter 11 regulations have an introduction, including a paragraph on the in-state posession of navive, wild-collected herps, that clearly contradicts the regulations outlined in Chapter 10.



Page 3, provision 7 seems to me to say that you can keep and breed as many non-Colorado hognose as you wish, provided you can show that they are not of Colorado origin.



-Cole

(Not a CO resident)

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