Wildlife Management Plan

See the current City of Longmont Wildlife Management Plan

In September 2019, the Longmont City Council adopted the current version of the City’s Wildlife management plan.  You can see it here.

 

2019 public meetings on plan update

Due to our ever-changing community, the Envision Longmont Multimodal & Comprehensive Plan and the City’s Sustainability Plan, the Wildlife Management Plan, originally adopted in 2006, was updated in 2019.

 

The City hired subject matter expert professionals to lead it through a public process and a plan update.

 

The first public meeting was held on Thursday, March 7, 2019. Approximately 55 interested individuals, including one Parks and Recreation Advisory Board member and two City Council members, attended this meeting. Presenters discussed recent Development Code updates related to Prairie Dog Management and information on the Resilient St. Vrain project. They also led a discussion related to the City’s Riparian Setback. Documents from the first public meeting include:

 

• A presentation on the process to update the Wildlife Management Plan
• A presentation on the Resilient St. Vrain Project’s efforts to reduce future flood risk
• A presentation on City of Longmont prairie dog regulations
• Information boards and definitions

 

The second public meeting was held on Thursday, April 4, 2019  and focused on pollinators, native fish of the St. Vrain Creek, conflicts with wildlife, species that enrich Longmont’s quality of life and wildlife diversity. Documents from the second public meeting include:

 

• Public meeting #2 memo
• A presentation on the policy update
• A presentation on the state of the St. Vrain
• Information boards and definitions
• Public meeting #2 comments

 

The third public meeting was held on Wednesday, May 15, 2019 and included a Wildlife Management Plan progress presentation to the Board of Environmental Affairs. A fourth public meeting was held on Thursday, May 23, 2019 and included a findings presentation and visioning workshop.

 

A fifth public meeting was held on Monday, June 10, 2019. The project team presented a draft of the Wildlife Management Plan presentation to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. Documents for this public meeting included:

 

• Wildlife Management Plan – Findings Presentation and Draft Recommendation to PRAB
• Wildlife Management Plan Draft
• Wildlife Management Plan Update 2019 Draft Action Table

 

The project team presented a final version to the Longmont City Council on September 24, 2019.

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The intention of the Wildlife Management Plan is to develop a general City philosophy for allowing the coexistence of wildlife and human activities and to the extent possible, preserve wildlife habitats and promote improvements of degraded habitats, ensuring that Longmont’s high quality of life is maintained for its residents.