Colorado Parks and Wildlife – Garfield County

CPW presents county with mule deer population outlook

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has presented updates to its upcoming mule deer herd management plan to the Board of County Commissioners. Mass recreation, persistent drought, chronic wasting disease, competition for habitat, and natural predation were noted as factors affecting local herd numbers. As part of the updated plan, population objectives are being widened with the same midpoint to help the agency meet its goals and provide more flexibility in management. Sex ratios are also being decreased in some areas to help combat chronic wasting disease, which affects a greater number of bucks than does. Julie Mao, CPW wildlife biologist

Chronic Wasting Disease, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Mule deer

Rising river temperatures prompt additional voluntary fishing closures in the northwest region

Several days of above-average air temperatures and river temperatures quickly approaching and in some cases exceeding 71°F have prompted Colorado Parks and Wildlife to extend and implement new voluntary fishing closures on the Colorado, Eagle, and Yampa Rivers. Beginning Wednesday, July 20, CPW is implementing the following voluntary fishing closures in effect until further notice. Full-day voluntary fishing closure on the Colorado River from Bair Ranch in Glenwood Canyon downstream to the Hwy.13 bridge in Rifle. The full-day fishing closure now applies to the entire stretch of the Colorado River from State Bridge downstream to Rifle. Fishing closures

Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Fishing closure

Garfield County supports sage-grouse habitat mapping revisions

GARFIELD COUNTY, CO – Mapping of greater sage-grouse habitat in Colorado has been refined, updated, and supported by the Garfield County Board of County Commissioners. The Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado (AGNC), of which Garfield County is a member, worked with Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to update and refine habitat mapping in northwest Colorado. The mapping for six separate greater sage-grouse populations in northwest Colorado was updated in this project, including the Parachute-Piceance-Roan (PPR) population. That population is located in central-western Garfield County and southern Rio Blanco County, which are also home to substantial, nationally recognized oil and gas

BLM, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Habitat, Resource management, Sage grouse