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Colorado Natural Heritage Program 2007/2008 Project Abstracts Colorado Natural Heritage Program 2007/2008 Project Abstracts Colorado Natural Heritage Program Warner College of Natural Resources Colorado State University 8002 Campus Delivery Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-8002 Telephone (970) 491-1309 Fax (970) 491-3349 www.cnhp.colostate.edu The Colorado Natural Heritage Program is within the Warner College of Natural Resources Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Department at Colorado State University. CNHP is a nonprofit organization externally funded through grants and contracts. Copyright © 2008 Colorado State University Colorado Natural Heritage Program All Rights Reserved Cover photo: Carolyn Aspelin and Chris West, of Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust, identifying grasses in southeast Colorado. 1 From the Director: As I bask in April’s deliciously warm sunshine, I’m reminded of the power of the sun to warm us and recharge our batteries. Our scientific and political communities are rapidly finding solutions to global climate change by embracing the power of the sun, wind, water, and geothermal, yet we are still faced with a loss of biodiversity. As Colorado becomes a major producer of energy, there is increasing potential for conflicts between energy development (renewable and non-renewable alike) and the conservation of Colorado’s well known biodiversity. Solutions to this dilemma require facts, compromise, and planning. The Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) is actively working on solutions; sound biological information on the status and location of Colorado’s most imperiled species and plant communities is more important now than ever before. We have amassed over 27,000 mapped locations of species and communities of concern and added value to the locations by designing nearly 2,000 biological planning boundaries (Potential Conservation Areas) that can provide managers and developers with valuable insight and sound planning tools. In this year’s project summaries you will read about our inventories, monitoring, conservation planning and data exchange projects. Our staff of 27 has gone above and beyond the call of duty, working on more than 40 projects funded by 26 partners. This year we worked directly with oil and gas companies while we completed our biological inventory of Rio Blanco County, an energy- and biodiversity-rich area. The energy companies voluntarily granted CNHP biologists permission to survey for rare species, enabling us to identify potential conflicts in discrete areas that are easily avoided with proactive planning. These partnerships generate optimism for avoiding conflicts between development and biodiversity by developing on-the-ground relationships. We hope to follow the Rio Blanco County model with all renewable and non- renewable energy companies throughout Colorado. Our inventory projects are also at the heart of CSU’s extension mission. In southeast Colorado we developed working relationships with nearly 50 ranchers as we discovered the biological wealth and beauty of one of Colorado’s least studied landscapes. This area contains our state’s largest and most intact, privately-owned working landscape. Ongoing monitoring efforts include the Pawnee Montane Skipper (6th year), Boreal Toad (9th year), and Prebles Meadow Jumping Mouse (10th year), three species that are imperiled but tenuously holding on. All of the work described here is brought together in our biological conservation databases - a library that is valued at nearly $20 million. Species profiles, range maps, imperilment ranks, occurrence status, location, and conservation boundaries are at the core of our state’s conservation knowledge base. The increased use of this library suggests the ever-growing power of a comprehensive and fully integrated repository. My five years as Director have been some of the most rewarding years of my life, but it is time to move into a new role as CNHP’s Conservation Planning Team Leader. It is with great honor that I pass the Director baton to Dave Anderson. Dave has been with CNHP since 1999 and brings a new vitality and wealth of knowledge to Colorado conservation leadership. I predict a rich future for our program with Dave at the helm. Renée J. Rondeau - April 7, 2008 2 Colorado Natural Heritage Program 2007/2008 Project Abstracts Table of Contents From the Director:............................................................................................................... 2 NatureServe and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program ................................................. 1 2007/2008 Projects..............................................................................................................2 Primary Funders (in alphabetical order) ......................................................................... 3 Inventory......................................................................................................................... 5 Survey of Critical Biological Resources, Southeast Colorado ................................... 5 Assessment of Critical Biological Resources in Boulder County .............................. 6 Survey of Critical Wetland Resources in Boulder County ......................................... 7 Survey of Critical Biological Resources in Rio Blanco County................................. 7 Rare Plant Survey on Bureau of Land Management Lands, Gateway, Mesa County 8 Rare Plant Surveys on Fort Carson Military Reservation and Pinon Canyon Manuever Site ............................................................................................................. 9 Rare Species Inventory of Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site ................. 10 Survey of Critical Wetlands and Riparian Areas in Hinsdale County, Colorado..... 10 Survey of Soapstone Open Space for Rare Butterfly and Fish Species.................... 11 Monitoring and Research.............................................................................................. 12 U.S. Air Force Academy Noxious Weed Mapping and Monitoring ........................ 12 Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse Populations at the U.S. Air Force Academy ..... 13 Boreal Toad Monitoring and Survey ........................................................................ 14 Pagosa skyrocket Inventory, Monitoring and Conservation..................................... 14 Rare Plant Monitoring on San Juan National Forest ................................................ 15 Plant Species Vouchering for Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve......... 15 Pawnee Montane Skipper Post-fire Habitat Assessment Survey - 2007 Monitoring16 Vegetation Index of Biotic Integrity for Colorado Wetlands: Phase 3..................... 16 Field Testing of Wetland Ecological Integrity Assessment Scorecards ................... 17 Department of Transportation Conservation Easement Monitoring......................... 18 Conservation Planning.................................................................................................. 19 Measuring Colorado’s Biodiversity Health .............................................................. 19 Geospatial Environmental and Community Analysis for Pueblo and El Paso Counties .................................................................................................................... 20 Central Shortgrass Prairie Ecoregional Assessment and Partnership Initiative........ 20 LandScope America: The Conservation Guide to America’s Natural Places .......... 21 Rare Plant Conservation Initiative: Saving Colorado’s Wildflowers....................... 21 A Conservation Blueprint for Neotropical Migratory Birds in Colorado................. 22 Cushion Bladderpod Status Report........................................................................... 23 Front Range EcoRegional Partnership...................................................................... 24 Vegetation Classification, Heritage Methodology, and Data Exchange ...................... 25 Vegetation Classification and Mapping of Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve..................................................................................................................... 25 Distribution of Frankenia jamesii in Colorado......................................................... 26 CNHP Data Distribution and Environmental Review Projects ................................ 27 3 Threatened and Endangered Plant Species Data Development and Field Surveys .. 28 Review and Evaluation of the National Park Service’s Proposed National Natural Landmarks................................................................................................................. 28 Ecological Integrity Assessments for selected Ecological Systems in Boulder County, Colorado...................................................................................................... 28 National Park Service Data Management Support ................................................... 29 Bureau of Land Management Data Processing and Statewide Dataset .................... 30 U.S. Forest Service Region 2 Data Processing and Statewide Dataset .................... 30 Editing assistance for NPS vegetation mapping reports........................................... 31 General Support from The Nature Conservancy ...................................................... 31 Recent Journal Publications by Colorado Natural Heritage Program Staff...................... 32 Online Web Projects ......................................................................................................... 32 U.S. Forest
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