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y often just for comparison here is a young bobcat living large at the wildlife rehabilitation center in custer county due to be released when the weather warms photo wet mountain wildlife posted by chas s clifton at 7 20 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels bobcat lynx photography silverton january 12 2024 colorado wolves faux paws on the ground gov jared polis was on hand dec 18 20203 to release oregon wolves in colorado but some coloradans deeply involved with the project never were invited some officials and western slope residents are annoyed that colorado parks and wildlife seemed eager to please governor polis if not marlon reis his animal rightist husband while forgetting promises to them they were never on the guest list or even informed about last month s wolf release according to the sky hi news in grand county two cpw commissioners in particular marie haskett from meeker who represents sportspersons and outfitters and duke phillip iv who represents agriculture and is from colorado springs both believe a lack of communication and transparency has led to distrust of the agency in rural communities and they both think the wolf reintroduction created animosity between rural and urban areas while dismayed at the way the wolf releases were rolled out the commissioners both expressed gratitude for the hard work cpw staff put into making the historic voter mandated reintroduction possible haskett was the first to speak about wolves at the jan 10 meeting she called dec 18 the day the first five wolves were released a sad day because comissioners were not notified she claims that many of the cpw staff who worked tirelessly on the reintroduction were also not made aware to her knowledge other members of the legislature and local counties were not alerted about the releases either even the grand county commissioner merrit linke who was on the twg technical working group was not invited to the release and yet other specific members of the working group were haskett said the people who politically drove this issue were present the divide between rural and urban populations was blown up with this ballot initiative now cpw has taken a huge political hit with the public because of these political actions philip in particular was angry because he had worked on the reintroduction but found that it had occured a day afterwards by watching tv news haskett said that poor communications with local people puts cpw s work at risk since it must manage wildlife on both public and private land i would add that it also feeds the conspiratorial narrative that the wolf introduction was punishment to an area that did not vote for gov polis and other democrats for official wolf news check cpw s wolf management page posted by chas s clifton at 4 38 pm no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels colorado parks and wildlife grand county politics wolves january 02 2024 the man who is buying the colorado prairie click to enlarge source bloomberg stefan soloviev is only the 26th largest landowner in america so he has a way to go to catch up with john malone or ted turner stefan soloviev business insider i do remember when he bought the grandly named colorado pacific railroad all 122 miles of it in 2018 but there was more to come much more the new york businessman still in his 20s started buying land then he went to see it in this case in prowers county southeast colorado which includes the town of lamar it was 6 miles off the paved road and i m driving and everything looks the same and i m driving and driving and i finally get to the property and i m like oh my god i m in the middle of nowhere and i had a bit of a panic attack he says during a wandering interview with the colorado sun i ll never forget that first time out here it s gotten easier you adjust you adjust to your surroundings you start to become part of the community he also has a pretty good spread in east central new mexico as you will see if you explore this bloomberg graphic article on america s top one hundred landowners land they ain t making any more of it soloviev meanwhile has big plans so the pitch looks like this rent his farmland at market rates grow your own grains truck them to soloviev s grain elevator close to the colorado kansas border then ship the grain on his new colorado pacific railroad to pueblo to access union pacific s national rail network soloviev says eventually he wants to grow into the international exporting business with cargo ships that can move colorado grain as far as i can take it posted by chas s clifton at 3 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels agriculture colorado new mexico private lands railroads december 31 2023 wolves now add to the colorado experience a wolf who walked in from wyoming caught on a scout camera in north park in march 2023 don gittleson via ap dad was still alive when the debate on reintroducing wolves to colorado began soon after the 1995 reintroduction in yellowstone national park his us forest service career began and then ended in colorado and he had thoughts his days of being a horseback district ranger in the eastern san juans were long gone now he said this state is just a big park there s no place for wolves that s setting aside the livestock issues when dad was asking herders cuántas borregas tiene there were no wolves to think about those sheep outfits are much diminished for other economic reasons but some remain as do cattle horses llamas alpacas and other speciality livestock the late ed quillen mountain county newsman and publisher prided himself on being the only denver post editorial columnist who lived outside the denverplex he liked to say that colorado used to be a colony of chicago providing minerals and agricultural products to industrial america but then he said we became part of the los angeles economy a colony of the entertainment industry now colorado s best known export is experience if that is so then think of wolves as just another tourism experience like ziplines over canyons so maybe dad had it backwards colorado is a park so it should have wolves wolves that will add spiritual value to the colorado experience without hurting anyone with some wolves already filtering from wyoming on their own and killing livestock and dogs was it necessary to bring in more the voters in their wisdom thought so in 2020 now 30 50 wolves are planned to be released in colorado over the next three to five years wolf 2302 or a 68 lb female yearling is released somewhere in grand county on dec 18 2023 some headlines and squabbles maybe colorful flagging will keep wolves away from livestock so says adam baca colorado s first wolf conflict coordinator some oregon ranches think flagging fladry and other counter measures are not enough tom birkmaier an oregon rancher expressed his concerns about the relocation telling oregon public broadcasting it s just going to bring the problem over to a lot of ranchers and end up killing a lot of livestock in colorado this sentiment is not limited to oregon ranchers alone lawmakers in other wolf states including idaho wyoming and montana have also declined colorado s request for wolves despite their own sizable wolf populations cat urbigkit wyoming sheep rancher writer and livestock guardian dog expert points out misinformation in the colorado parks and wildlife press kit and says some of the released wolves came from livestock killing packs cpw wasn t up front in telling the public about the depredation history of the packs the newly released wolves originated it was rachel gabel who dug into the details and told the public what she d found gabel is a rancher and ag journalist from wiggins colo who has covered the wolf reintroduction extensively she was promptly attacked by the governor s husband marlon reis reis doesn t just differ with gabel in a lengthy thread of facebook comments he posted over christmas weekend he repeatedly personally attacks her abilities and standing as a journalist and urges the public to never trust anything rachel gabel writes it also makes us wonder whether our politically astute governor winced while reading reis peevishly accuse gabel of seeking not to report the truth but to inspire fear or where reis pettily huffed in the same post i ll never understand how she got hired as a journalist wolves did not just wander into colorado their own the first pups were spotted in spring 2021 but that did not count as a self sustaining population colorado parks and wildlife said it was interesting to the wildlife biologists though stay tuned there is more to come for sure posted by chas s clifton at 6 00 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels colorado colorado parks and wildlife journalism livestock north park colorado oregon ranching tourism wildlife wolves november 29 2023 life death and coffee in clayton new mexico no one is ever on the sidewalks in clayton new mexico its population has trended down since 1960 and if you want to visit a store or other business you can generally park right in front the longest walk in town is probably from the farthest truckers diesel pumps to the convenience store entrance at the love s fuel stop i once tried to walk around downtown was staying at the restored eklund hotel and came the nearest ever to being forcibly disincarnated by a passing pickup truck even through i was crossing with the light i felt the backwash of death s wings i can tell you that maybe the driver was so unused to seeing a person on crossing the street that he assumed i was an incorporeal ghost or he was drunk so when i make my regular us 87 coffee stop at crossroads coffee a k a mock s crossroads coffee mill i park in front or in the little gravel lot alongside or on rare occasions i use the drive up window there s no need to walk posted by chas s clifton at 5 12 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels food new mexico travel october 20 2023 give your jeep a prairie road advantage jeep s borrow ditch advantage option is available only from great plains dealerships so it is not well known to the automotive press posted by chas s clifton at 5 10 pm no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor hunting october 19 2023 what the hunter said to the dog and what the dog replied long ago in the ice age a rough fluffy dog lay down on the hunter s reindeer skin pack when the hunter returned he spoke hey you stinking animal my quiver is under there if you broke one of my good arrows i m going to shove it into your ribs you unclean beast and the dog spoke with his tail as dogs do we re going out i m ready let s go and they lived happily ever after until dog did something else that was wrong posted by chas s clifton at 11 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels dogs october 17 2023 the heart of wilderness lies in the prairie if you take your finger and place it on a map marking the geographical center of the nation somewhere above kansas and below south dakota it won t simply be resting on a blank spot it will be touching the beating heart of true american wildness a place of windswept impossibly vast tableaus ancient grass covered hills and fast flying prairie grouse i am on a northern plains journey night now with a traverse of the sandhills planned for the return leg of it here is one of several links to earlier crossings self advertisement in the nebraska sandhills i never have spent as much time there as i would have liked but this video helps to make up for that lack it s scripted by oklahoma writer chad love for the pheasants forever conservation group you can find more still photos here there is public land there too posted by chas s clifton at 1 23 pm no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels hunting nebraska prairie wilderness october 11 2023 what fall aspen gold tells us about water hiker looks a rain gauge in an aspen grove this year s colorado aspen leaf peeping season was a fine one and the reason is last winter s snowpack r eports the colorado sun with enough water and nutrients deciduous trees can produce more leaves creating denser foliage that offers even more of a spectacle to enthusiastic leaf peepers in the fall this year winter precipitation blanketed colorado in a deep snowpack which acts as a vital natural reservoir for the state s water supply by may most of colorado mountains had an average to above average snowpack compared with historical records from 1991 to 2020 according to the natural resources conservation service the summer was cooler overall and some parts of the state even received record rainfall the state hasn t seen many of the windy days cold temperatures and snowfall in aspen stands that all contribute to falling leaves it s just shaped up to be a fantastic year to get out and see some of the colors in colorado and it s a good year for trees in general in colorado said dan west of the colorado state forest service with the wind coming in the northern colorado aspen leaf season is ending but you can still see them in parts of southern colorado into new mexico the orange yellow and red scrub leaves are peaking down here but the denver centric media like the colorado sun don t mention those posted by chas s clifton at 4 45 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels autumn colorado colorado state forest service trees older posts home subscribe to posts atom the point was no longer to show one s hardihood the point was to be there john graves goodbye to a river subscribe to this blog rss feed about me chas s clifton view my complete profile 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