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Best Management Practices

CNHP staff has authored and/or co-authored 22 Best Management Practices guidelines.

Front Range roadside by Michael Menefee.
Front Range roadside by Michael Menefee.
Round-leaf Four-O'Clock (Oxybaphus rotundifolius) by Susan Panjabi
Round-leaf Four-O'Clock (Oxybaphus rotundifolius) by Susan Panjabi
Habitat for DeBeque milkvetch west of Rifle in Garfield County, Colorado.
Habitat for DeBeque milkvetch west of Rifle in Garfield County, Colorado.

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Below are links to Best Management Practices Reports

  • Conserving Roadside Populations of Colorado's Globally Imperiled Plants: A Pilot Project
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Arkansas Canyon stickleaf (Nuttallia densa)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Belliis twinpod (Physaria bellii)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Brandegee wild buckwheat (Eriogonum brandegeei)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Colorado green gentian (Frasera coloradensis)
  • Recommended best management practices for Colorado's Globally Imperiled Plants: practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended best management practices for Cushion bladderpod (Physaria pulvinata): practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern.
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for DeBeque milkvetch (Astragalus debequaeus)
  • Recommended best management practices for Degener's Penstemon (Penstemon degeneri). Practices developed to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended best management practices for Golden blazing star (Nuttallia chrysantha): practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Good-neighbor bladderpod (Physaria vicina)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Grand Mesa penstemon (Penstemon mensarum)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Gunnison milkvetch (Astragalus anisus)
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Managing Noxious Weeds on Sites with Rare Plants
  • Recommended best management practices for Pagosa bladderpod (Physaria pruinosa): practices developed to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended best management practices for Piceance bladderpod (Physaria parviflora): practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Plants of Concern
  • Recommended best management practices for Pueblo goldenweed (Oonopsis puebloensis} practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Rabbit Ears gilia (Ipomopsis aggregata ssp. weberi)
  • Recommended best management practices for Roan Cliffs blazing star (Nuttallia rhizomata): practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern
  • Recommended Best Management Practices for Rollinsii twinpod (Physaria rollinsii)
  • Recommended best management practices for Round-leaf four o'clock (Oxybaphus rotundifolius): practices to reduce the impacts of road maintenance activities to plants of concern

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Spatial layers created for the BTPD Habitat Suitability Model`

Methods used for building the BTPD Habitat Suitability Model.

Methodological approach for identifying suitable landscapes for the black-tailed prairie dog (BTPD) ecosystem conservation.

Maps of state-level high conservation potential habitat (top 10% and 30%) for the black-tailed prairie dog ecosystem, under current and future climates (present, warm/wet, hot/dry, and overlaps

Maps of range-wide high conservation potential habitat (top 10% and 30%) for the black-tailed prairie dog ecosystem, under current and future climates (present, warm/wet, hot/dry, and overlaps

LandownershipArea (km2)Percent (%)
Private63,44765.4
Federal14,02114.5
State9,3479.6
Indigenous lands7,7798.0
NGO/private conservation2,2502.3
Local/Regional1000.1
Total96,944100
Overlap of top 10% high conservation potential areas with land ownership types
StateArea (km2)Percent (%)
Colorado24,08424.8
Montana19,40120.0
South Dakota19,33119.9
Wyoming18,94719.5
New Mexico7,0827.3
Nebraska2,5252.6
Arizona1,8451.9
Texas1,5521.6
Oklahoma1,0591.1
North Dakota6990.7
Kansas4200.4
Total96,944100
Lands with high conservation potential (Top 10%) for the prairie dog ecosystem, by state.