A mama bear and her cub dig through trash near Observation Rd. | Photo: WDIO-TV/File WDIO Created: July 30, 2021 06:16 PM
On Friday, the Superior National Forest announced a Food Storage Order for the Superior National Forest, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) management area. All visitors will need to store their food properly. Rangers say the food storage order is the result of increases in human-bear interactions with negative outcomes.
Officials say the rise in interactions is the result of a number of factors. We finalized a new bear action plan this year which calls for more systematic reporting, so we probably have more reports being submitted, Superior National Forest Wildlife Biologist Cheron Ferland said in a press release. But this by itself doesn’t account for the increase. It’s also because there are more visitors on the landscape an
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The long concrete boat ramp at Yamcolo Reservoir is normally mostly underwater in early summer, but this dry year, the ramp never opened. Shown July 3, the bottom of the ramp is already about 60 yards distant from the water level. Photo by Suzie Romig
Recreating on reservoirs or camping near a picturesque lake this summer in a time of extreme drought in Northwest Colorado may require more forethought than a glance at a map. Multiple agricultural use reservoirs in and near Routt County have already dropped to extremely low levels much earlier than in past years.
Local water officials say some key agricultural-use reservoirs, such as Stillwater Reservoir, which serves South Routt County ranchers, only filled to 34% of its acre-feet capacity this year. In other words, the reservoir started the summer as low as it normally is in the fall following the irrigation season, said Andi Schaffner, secretary for reservoir owner Bear River Reservoir Co. Schaffner, a Yampa resident, said 129-acr
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