The kit fox (Vulpes macrotis) is categorized as "endangered" by the state of Colorado. The kit fox population in Colorado experienced a dramatic crash in the late 1990s. This study used non-invasive detection methods to evaluate the current distribution of the species in west-central Colorado. The results from this survey indicate that there are currently few to no resident kit foxes within the study area in west-central Colorado. It is clear that the species has not recovered from the population crash at the end of the 1990s.
This report represents the CDOW sponsored boreal toad research done in 2003 by several researchers, and has been consolidated into a single document to make this information available to members of the Boreal Toad Recovery Team and other interested parties.
This Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) proposal describes a cooperative program that focuses on providing permanent cover for wildlife while maintaining environmentally friendly wheat fallow farming over a larger area, and adding economic stability to producers within the region. This concept uses multiple federal and state programs to address a variety of resource concerns, while maintaining the agriculturally based viability of the region. The CREP and state cost-shares and state incentives would provide for the establishment of permanent cover, while the Delayed Minimum Tillage (DMT) would be used for management purposes on adjacent acres - thereby increasing the area of environmental benefit beyond the CREP acres. Reducing herbicide use, maintaining adequate amounts of permanent and residual cover for habitat, improving water quality, preventing soil erosion and providing public access would be the main objectives of the CREP.
