Chris Castilian has joined Colorado Mountain College as a strategic adviser to better position the college as a premier educational partner in the outdoor industry.
Chris Castilian has joined Colorado Mountain College as a strategic advisor to better position the college as a premier educational partner in the outdoor industry.
Envision Forest Health Council partners will treat the overgrown forest above the Arkansas River north of Buena Vista to improve wildlife habitat and reduce risk of wildfire and its potential effects on area residents and infrastructure.
Railroad Bridge is the third forest treatment project to be prioritized and funded under the Council, which formed last year to implement the Chafee County Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
The project is in the wildfire planâs top priority areas that identifies where to treat forests for the highest cost efficiency and community benefit. Treatments involve thinning by hand and machine, and then burning slash piles when conditions allow.
National Audubon Society (Prowers County) received a $317,686 grant to restore and improve the management of private ranches in critical grassland habitat and identify and develop habitat management plans. Management plans will focus on improving habitat for focal bird species such as lesser prairie chicken, eastern black rail, lark bunting, and thick-billed longspur. These efforts will lead to hydrology restoration on more than 6,000 acres of mesic habitat and the strategic management of 30,000 acres of grassland habitat.
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced $3.1 million in awards from its Restoration and Stewardship of Outdoor Resources and Environment (RESTORE) Colorado program for projects on public and private conservation lands that have the greatest benefit for wildlife habitat and local communities.