MONTROSE — The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has extended the time period for submitting comments on the “Colorado Gunnison’s and White-tailed Prairie Dog Conservation Plan.”
Comments from the public will be accepted through Jan. 5, 2009.
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The Gunnison’s prairie dog is found mainly in southwest Colorado, the San Luis Valley and in South Park; the white-tailed prairie dog is found primarily in northwest Colorado but its range extends into the Uncompahgre Valley south of Montrose.
The goals of the conservation plan are to:
• Develop and implement conservation strategies that will work to prevent the need to list the two species under the Endangered Species Act.
• Promote conservation of not only the two species, but also their habitats and associated wildlife species.
• Implement conservation strategies to help mitigate negative impacts to the two species.
• Identify research needs that will help guide appropriate conservation of populations.
• Focus use of Colorado’s existing regulatory mechanisms to maintain species viability.
• Increase stakeholder and other agencies’ participation in prairie dog conservation.
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