Posted on 11/26/2009 10:53:54 AM PST by george76
How are forest-thinning projects on Boulder County open space land affecting the tassel-eared Abert's squirrel? Which shorebirds and waterfowl are nesting at county ponds? How well have county wetland restoration projects really worked?
These are the kinds of questions the Parks and Open Space Department hopes a new corps of volunteers will help answer when the county's new Natural Resource Monitor program begins next year.
"We have a lot of acreage, and we have really diverse natural resources on our open space," said Michael Bauer, education and outreach specialist for the county's open space department...
As the county designed the program, staffers met with agencies across the state that already have similar monitoring projects, including the city of Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks Department, which surveys frogs, bats...
The city fields a lot of calls from other land management agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...
Wetlands is another word for mosquito infested swamp. Many of the plants are also allergy plants.
Is this a paid “volunteer” psoition?
I can fake the numbers with the best of ‘em!
(they may balk at the numbers of the “high desert, tri-anus wombats” I find)
I did a count here in Davidson County and we have one large, well-fed Tassel-shoed Squirrely Albert.
Seems to me that some of that “stimulus” money should be used to pay these volunteers, thereby creating “new jobs” that the dims can count....
Sounds like a PR campaign to raise taxes again...
Boulder= 32 square miles surrounded by reality!
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