CRIT Fish and Game launches new website for outdoor updates
CRIT Fish and Game’s new site puts June 6 Free Fishing Day, July 31 bighorn sheep deadlines and 2026 rules in one place for Parker-area users.
A new Colorado River Indian Tribes Fish & Game website gathered hunting, fishing and outdoor-recreation notices into one place just as June deadlines and season dates started stacking up for Parker-area residents.
The May 15 update sat alongside a General Election and Enrollment Update, a Free Fishing Day set for June 6, an Earth Day Celebration scheduled for May 30, a Sandhill Crane hunting season start date of Nov. 1 and Big Horn Sheep hunting applications due by July 31. It also shared a notice about missing child Aubree Healey, underscoring that the page now functions as a broad community bulletin board, not just a sportsmen’s feed.
For people planning time on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the new site is meant to remove guesswork. The department lists its office at 2100 Mutahar Drive in Parker, Arizona 85344, with weekday hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a phone number of (928) 669-9285. Its mission is broad: protect human life and property, enforce tribal laws, conserve and restore wildlife habitat, and provide wildlife resources for present and future generations.
The website also makes it easier to track the rules that matter before a trip. CRIT’s 2026 fishing regulations say most fish may be taken from Jan. 1, 2026, through Dec. 31, 2026. Open waters include Moovalya Pond, Ahakhav Tribal Preserve, Deer Lake, 12 Mile Lake and No Name Lake, while protected species include Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, bonytail chub and razorback sucker. On the angler report, wardens say they conduct daily creel censuses and use local anglers’ reports to identify what is biting and what bait is working.
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The site also points to costs and family programming that affect day-to-day use. Camping fees on CRIT lands became $60 effective Jan. 1, 2026. The department says it sold more than 32 youth antlerless deer permits in 2025, with four first-time youth hunters successful. Its Youth Fishing Day began in 2021 with help from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and thousands of rainbow trout are stocked at 12 Mile Lake each December for children to catch.
The online push fits a long-running department history. CRIT says Luke Patch Sr. served as the first chief game warden in the early 1950s, followed by Stanford Ameelyenah, David Martinez, Carl Harper Jr. and Josephine Tahbo, who was hired and appointed on Nov. 30, 2018. With tribal council members elected to four-year terms in early December of even-numbered years, the new site gives the reservation a more current place to follow the changing calendar of wildlife, recreation and tribal government.
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