COLORADO PARKS & WILDLIFE

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Recent "Ranching for Sage-grouse" ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Workshops Held for Private Landowners​​

Colorado Parks and Wildlife recently brought together subject matter experts to provide technical​ information needed to manage Gunnison and Greater sage-grouse habitat on private land.

Topics Included: 

Presentations

• Building a Toolbox – Landowner Support (4MB), Colorado Habitat Exchange 
  
• Greater Sage-grouse Biology & Habitat Requirements in Colorado (8.4MB)​​, Tony Apa, Avian Research Biologist
  
• Gunnison Sage-grouse Biology & Habitat Requirements in Colorado (7.9MB), Tony Apa, Avian Research Biologist
  
• Sagebrush Habitat Management for Sage-grouse (16MB), Trevor Balzer and Jim Garner, Habitat Coordinators
  
• Sage-grouse Funding Programs, Ken Morgan, Private Lands Specialist
  
• Sage-grouse Status (3MB),​ Kathy Griffin, Statewide Grouse Conservation Coordinator

• ​Presenter biographies​
  
  

Additional Documents and Handouts

• International Grouse Forum
  
• “Sagebrush Identification, Ecology & Palatability Relative to Sage-grouse” by Roger Rosentreter
  
• Sage-grouse Food Ranking
  
  

News Articles

• Craig Daily Press 2-11-15 – “Sage-grouse open house offers landowners tools to manage habitat - Officials work to keep bird off endangered list” 
  
• Montrose Daily Press 2-18-15 – “State Committed to Sage-grouse Fight”
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