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Grasshopper

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As a member of the CPW sportsmen?s roundtable in the NE region, I am asking for your help.
Boulder county has a massive open space budget generated from sales tax revenues, and over the years they have acquired a large amount of property. To date, they have not allowed open to the public hunting on their properties.
One of their properties, Rabbit Mountain open space, currently has a large (350 plus animal) non migratory elk herd. The herd is about to get bigger when the calves start dropping this spring. CPW is paying sportsmen game damage dollars to local ag producers as the elk will move into neighboring corn and ag fields, and then back to the refuge open space.
If you read the info at the link, the elk are causing serious habitat degradation as well as game damage expense. After much encouragement and consultation with the CPW the Boulder county open space staff has now developed a draft elk management plan to include limited hunting to reduce the herd, and encourage natural migration off the property and into the mountains.
I'd appreciate your help in lodging comment from the link to support the management plan hunt. The CPW has been working this issue for over 3 years. In your comments, it might be wise to reference the habitat damage, and problems with game damage to neighboring private lands rather than hunting opportunity. It might be received more favorably in a place like Boulder county given the real anti-hunting sentiment.
If you live on the front range, in person support at the meetings would help too.
See the press release at the link for more details, let me know if I can answer any questions.
Thanks!
Steve Hilde
NE region CPW sportsmans roundtable delegate

http://www.bouldercounty.org/os/ope...&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=POSRedirect
 
Clicked the "Approve" button. Comment: Yes. Manage the herd before they destroy their habitat, which would be troubling for Boulder, tragic for the elk. They were here before Boulder County.
 

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