Draft Herd Management Plans - seeking public comment
Traditionally, Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff have presented one Herd Management Plan at a time for approval to the Parks and Wildlife Commission. In order to address the large numbers of HMPS that need to be updated, staff have taken a new approach to develop a Regional roll-up of all HMPs in a CPW region for a single big game species to update or establish new population and sex ration objectives. The Regional plans also describe the significant management issue for herds within each Region, what public input was used to develop proposed objectives, and the inidividual HMPs for each herd.
Northeast Region Pronghorn Herds
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeking input on draft Herd Management Plans for the 7 Northeast Colorado pronghorn herds. These herds include: PH-01 Escarpment, PH-02 Hardpan, PH-04 Sandhills, PH-30 South Park, PH-33 Cherokee Park, PH-35 Kiowa, and PH-36 Laramie River Valley. CPW is proposing new management objectives for PH-01, PH-04, PH-30, and PH-35. CPW is proposing extensions of recently approved management objectives for PH-02, PH-33, and PH-36.
Please review the draft plans & email your comments to Lance.Carpenter@state.co.us by February 20, 2023.
Southeast Region Pronghorn Herds
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is seeking input on draft Herd Management Plans for the 11 Southeast Colorado pronghorn herds. These herds include: PH-05 Haswell, PH-06 Hugo, PH-07 Thatcher, PH-08 Yoder, PH-12 Cheyenne, PH-13 Tobe, PH-18 Two Buttes, PH-19 Last Chance, PH-20 Wet Mountain, PH-31 Ft. Carson, and PH-39 Collegiate. CPW is proposing an adjustment to the recently approved management objective for PH-18 and extensions to the recently approved objectives for PH-05, PH-12, PH-13, & PH-39. CPW is proposing new management objectives for PH-06, PH-07, PH-08, PH-19, PH-20, and PH-31.
Please review the draft plans & email your comments to Julie.Stiver@state.co.us by February 20, 2023.
Thank you -- CPW appreciates your time and input!
