{"id":3795,"date":"2009-06-16T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/survey-of-critical-biological-resources-in-chaffee-county\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:59:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:59:23","slug":"survey-of-critical-biological-resources-in-chaffee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/06\/16\/survey-of-critical-biological-resources-in-chaffee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of Critical Biological Resources in Chaffee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Chaffee County became the 31st Colorado county surveyed for critical biological resources by CNHP, completed by Denise Culver, Delia Malone, and Stephanie Neid.  The survey included both wetland and upland areas and was made possible with funding from Chaffee County, Great Outdoors Colorado, Colorado Division of Wildlife, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 8.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5754\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/drc.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/drc.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/drc-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%\">CNHP Ecologist Denise Culver<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Chaffee County has three Potential Conservation Areas (PCA) ranked with an Outstanding Biodiversity Significance (B1) due to the rarity and\/or excellent condition of a species.  The Middle and South Cottonwood Creek PCA is Colorado\u2019s best breeding site for the State Endangered (G4T1Q S1) Boreal Toad (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Bufo boreas <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">boreas<\/span>).  The Castle Gardens and Droney Gulch PCAs are also ranked as outstanding due to the documentation of the critically imperiled (G1G2 S1S2) Brandegee wild buckwheat (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Eriogonum brandegeei<\/span>), a Colorado endemic and Fendler\u2019s townsend-daisy (<span style=\"font-style: italic\">Townsendia fendleri<\/span>) (G2S2), a regional endemic.  Learn more about Natural Heritage rankings here.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5755\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/chaffee_townsendiafenleri.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"295\" alt=\"Townsendia fendleri\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/chaffee_townsendiafenleri.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/chaffee_townsendiafenleri-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Townsendia fendleri<\/span> (Fendler&#8217;s townsend-daisy)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The project increased the number of PCAs in the county to 57 and added 53 new element occurrences and updated 27 known occurrences.  The information from the survey is already being used by several land trusts to establish conservation easements for private properties, and also provides an additional data resource for the Chaffee County\u2019s Comprehensive Plan.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnhp.colostate.edu\/download\/documents\/2009\/BoulderCoReportFINAL_6-26-2009.pdf\">full report PDF<\/a> can be downloaded from our <a href=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month CNHP made the local paper (The Mountain Mail in Salida) regarding our report to the Chaffee County commissioners.  Here\u2019s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themountainmail.com\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5756\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/frenchman-creek.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Frenchman Creek\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/frenchman-creek.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/frenchman-creek-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 78%\">Frenchman Creek in Chaffee County, CO<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Chaffee County became the 31st Colorado county surveyed for critical biological resources by CNHP, completed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5754,"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":[9,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cnhp-in-the-news","category-county-inventory","category-reports-and-publications","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","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=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}