{"id":21347,"date":"2020-02-09T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=63075"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T22:50:43","slug":"cpw-to-host-public-meetings-on-mountain-lion-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/cpw-to-host-public-meetings-on-mountain-lion-management\/","title":{"rendered":"CPW to host public meetings on mountain lion management"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/MountainLion-CDP-012220-1024x706-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/MountainLion-CDP-012220-1024x706-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/MountainLion-CDP-012220-1024x706-1-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/01\/MountainLion-CDP-012220-1024x706-1-768x530.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>A large female mountain stares down at hunters and the dogs that treed her in the Roaring Fork Valley this winter. CPW will be in Grand County to discuss mountain lion management plans at 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the CSU Extension Hall in Kremmling.<\/strong><br \/><em>Elizabeth Stewart-Severy\/Aspen Journalism<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be hosting seven public meetings around the Western Slope to discuss the agency\u2019s new mountain lion management plan.<\/p>\n<p>CPW will be in Grand County at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the CSU Extension Hall in Kremmling to review and discuss the new plan. The agency especially encourages hunters, farmers, ranchers, outfitters and landowners to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The new plan looks at managing mountain lion populations from a regional scale, instead of the smaller, localized scale that had been previously used, according to a CPW news release on the meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent research, however, shows that managing mountain lions on a landscape scale is more appropriate and effective,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The managers have also reviewed studies on mountain lions from Colorado, Wyoming and Montana to help establish population and harvest objectives that match the science.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will help wildlife managers make decisions around population goals, harvest objectives and the license-setting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig game management plans provide guidance to wildlife managers who attempt to balance the biological capabilities of animals, their habitat and public requests for wildlife-related recreation opportunities,\u201d the release explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/cpw-to-host-public-meetings-on-mountain-lion-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large female mountain stares down at hunters and the dogs that treed her in the Roaring Fork Valley this winter. CPW will be in Grand County to discuss mountain lion management plans at 6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the CSU Extension Hall in Kremmling.Elizabeth Stewart-Severy\/Aspen Journalism Colorado Parks and Wildlife will be hosting seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 04:59:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}