{"id":3445,"date":"2015-03-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/gunnison-sage-grouse-conservation-easement-in-dove-creek-co\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:05:05","slug":"gunnison-sage-grouse-conservation-easement-in-dove-creek-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2015\/03\/26\/gunnison-sage-grouse-conservation-easement-in-dove-creek-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunnison Sage Grouse Conservation Easement in Dove Creek, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nIn 2006, CNHP collaborated with Colorado Parks and Wildlife<br \/>\nbiologist to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/ourdata\/pca-reports\/\">Dove Creek Potential Conservation Area<\/a> (PCA) in<br \/>\nsouthwestern Colorado. This PCA was drawn to identify habitats that support one<br \/>\nof the seven remaining populations of the federally listed Gunnison<br \/>\nsage-grouse. As of 2014, this population (referred to as the Monticello-Dove<br \/>\nCreek population) contains only 98 individuals, according to the final listingrule issued by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lek count data from 19 years of<br \/>\nmonitoring are generally well below the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpw.state.co.us\/Documents\/WildlifeSpecies\/SpeciesOfConcern\/GunnisonSageGrouse\/ConsPlan\/ConsStrategyLocal.pdf\">Rangewide Conservation Plan <\/a>population<br \/>\ntarget of 500 breeding birds.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nIn recent years, in an effort to reverse the population<br \/>\ntrend, <a href=\"https:\/\/montezumaland.org\/\">Montezuma Land Conservancy<\/a> has worked with private landowners to<br \/>\nconserve important sage-grouse habitat with conservation easements.&nbsp; Since<br \/>\n2012, the Conservancy has conserved 3,340 acres of occupied habitat for the<br \/>\nGunnison sage-grouse \u2013 2,700 of which is located within the CNHP Dove Creek PCA. The most<br \/>\nrecent project protected approximately 680 acres of the Dove Creek PCA under a<br \/>\nconservation easement. The property contains sagebrush habitats, as well as<br \/>\nareas formerly used to grow dryland pinto bean crops which have been replanted<br \/>\ninto sage brush. &nbsp;The conservation easement contains a total of 788 acres,<br \/>\nand borders BLM land and the Coalbed Canyon State Wildlife Area.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6003\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Jon_Dove_Creek.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Jon_Dove_Creek.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Jon_Dove_Creek-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Jon_Dove_Creek-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Sagebrush habitats and former pinto bean cropland near Dove Creek, Colorado offer habitat for Gunnison sage-grouse, a species listed as threatened in 2014 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, CNHP collaborated with Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologist to create the Dove Creek Potential Conservation Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gunnison-sage-grouse","category-potential-conservation-areas","category-threatened-and-endangered-species","category-zoology","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}