Colorado Parks and Wildlife is in the planning process for the East Slope Mountain Lion Management Plan. Before the draft plan is written, CPW wants to share important information about mountain lion management on the East Slope and hear from the public. Information on upcoming public meetings is available below.
What is a management plan?
For Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), a management plan provides a science-based framework to coordinate strategies for maintaining healthy, resilient wildlife populations alongside demand for outdoor recreation opportunities. With development and urbanization increasing in the state, management is necessary to maintain the stability of Colorado’s mountain lion populations relative to what the landscape and social tolerance can support. CPW’s mountain lion management plans employ advances in research, including insights from recent long-term projects in Colorado, to maintain lion populations and provide multiple opportunities for the public to appreciate this species.
Why is CPW proposing an East Slope Lion Management Plan?
In 2020, CPW created its West Slope Mountain Lion Management Plan in recognition that larger, regional management scales are most closely aligned with the wide-ranging movements of lions across Colorado’s landscapes and allow for managers to draw more accurate inferences from population composition and mortality data. With the West Slope plan underway, CPW is currently formulating a corresponding plan for the eastern half of the state. The East Slope Lion Plan’s objective is to maintain stable mountain lion populations in the region by defining and implementing clear annual thresholds for adult female harvest and total human-caused mortality (e.g., harvest and roadkill or agricultural conflicts).
What’s happening now?
CPW is currently holding public meetings to inform the public and impacted stakeholders about lion management on the East Slope and hear attendees’ perspectives on mountain lions around their community. These meetings will provide the necessary information to comment on the draft East Slope Plan later in the process. In-person and virtual meeting attendees will learn more about mountain lion management through a brief presentation at the beginning of the meeting. The initial presentation will be followed by additional information and discussion on topics such as mountain lion biology, research, and interactions with humans.
Virtual meetings
- Thursday, February 29, 6:00pm-7:30pm MT
- Wednesday, March 6, 6:00pm-7:30pm MT
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This appears to me as the start of stopping all hunting of mountain lions by enviromental groups, such as the groups who were instramental in the reintroduction of wolves. If these management schemes keep up there will be no hunting in the future of Colorado. Get rid of Jeff Davis and return our Division of Wildlife to a non political biological based department.
Do you’re trolling somewhere else, please.
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Exactly, I work for the Government and science is a tool they use to take away your hunting rights and all rights in general.
And with that, you’re more likely to get welfare from the government than work “for” it.
Looking forward to sitting in on this evening’s Zoom meeting.
Thanks for the great work CPW employess do, and I wish Jeff Davis all success. He came on in “interesting” times.
This is all because the “Save the World people and animals have rights too people” don’t like seeing kitty kitty dead. This has nothing to do with science or management. I read there are 3800 -4000cate just in the Eastern slope, for GODS sake, how many do you need? Look out Colorado, this is California liberalism at its best!!