Larimer County Hall Ranch Lyons Heil Ranch Management Plan Update - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Larimer County Hall Ranch Lyons Heil Ranch Management Plan Update is prioritized on our planning horizon Was delayed due to Flood Recovery Planning Efforts Colorado Natural Heritage Program- County Assessment- B1 Outstanding

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Lyons Heil Ranch Hall Ranch

Larimer County

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  • Management Plan Update is prioritized on our

planning horizon

  • Was delayed due to Flood Recovery Planning Efforts
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Colorado Natural Heritage Program- County Assessment- B1 Outstanding Biodiversity Significance

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Critical Wildlife Habitat #8-

Designated due to diversity of plant associations, golden eagle, short-eared owl, avian biodiversity.

CWH #8-Rabbit Mountain

Van Dyke

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History of Elk Arrival and First Calving

2009 2009 2007

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100 200 300 400 500 600 700 1985 1988 1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2015

Rabbit Mountain Elk Counts & Population Projection

Minimum Count 2014 Population Projection

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Pics of elk now

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Rabbit Mountain

500 Acres

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Areas of Resource Damage

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BCPOS and CPW Coordination

Satellite Collars Deployed on Four Cows, March 2015

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Crop damage Hwy 66

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Crop Damage Payments

  • $215,000 since 2000

for all of GMU 20.

  • $113,000 since 2000
  • n fields east of

Rabbit. Game Damage Tags issued to landowners 1996, 2003-2014

  • Harvest of 45 total
  • ver the 12 years in all
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Subunit and damage tag success info

GMU 20

Estes Park Boulder Loveland

Special Hunt Unit

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Rabbit Mtn.

U S 2 8 7 SH 66

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2015

  • 100 licenses Issued
  • 70 hunters
  • 25 elk harvested

(cows only) 2016- Boundaries of Sub Unit Expanded

Special Sub Unit Success

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Hazing Efforts- Movement Patterns and Behaviors

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  • 20 outings - September (2015) through March 2016.
  • Remained unhabituated.
  • When pushed west, the herd moved to Indian Mountain.
  • Remained away from the core area for 1-6 days, but usually returned

within 1 or 3 days.

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Another map of movement

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Wildlife and Plant Ecology staff study vegetation

Browse Study

Mountain Mahogany

Vegetation Study

Natives Non-natives Litter Bare soil

Spring 2016

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Assessment of Vegetation Condition

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Mountain Mahogany

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Goal of Elk Management Plan

  • Reduce Resource Impacts
  • Reestablish migration
  • Reduce long-term population

to 30-70

  • Reduce private land impacts
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  • Proposed limited hunting – GMU 20 tags
  • Close park during hunting
  • 150 feet buffer from property edge
  • Input on details welcome
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Provide Input

  • Boulder County Parks and Open

Space Elk Management

  • Parks and Open Space Advisory

Committee April 27 at 6:30

Questions