A $20,000 grant will serve as seed money to improve fish habitat, minimize erosion and reduce sediment in the Happy Meadows section of the South Platte River north of Lake George, a place severely impacted by the 2002 Hayman fire.
The money was awarded to the Coalition for the Upper South Platte, which will form a partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Park County and Trout Unlimited. The grant was provided by the South Platte Enhancement Board, which administers a plan funded by water providers to enhance wildlife and recreational values.
Colorado tough on poachers
Colorado’s Winter Range Patrol has been cited by the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, which held its annual convention at Snowmass Village on Sept. 20, for its efforts to reduce poaching.
The Division of Wildlife program, started in 2003, is aimed at reducing the poaching of mule deer bucks when they become concentrated on winter range. The effort, concentrated along the Utah border, features saturation patrols, decoy operations and night airplane flights.
