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OSMP closes 2024 with wildlife camera highlights, trail openings and restoration wins
Summary
Open Space and Mountain Parks staff used the Dec. 11 meeting to show a wildlife camera montage, describe restoration milestones (more than 300 acres restored, 153 acres of forest thinning), new trail openings and infrastructure grants totaling about $1.7 million, and to preview 2025 priorities.
At the Dec. 11 Open Space Board of Trustees meeting, OSMP deputies closed the year with a round‑robin of department highlights and a wildlife camera montage showing animal activity across the system.
Christian Newitz, OSMP wildlife ecologist, presented a video of remote camera highlights and said the program has collected roughly 98,000 photos over 15 years and detected 134 species on OSMP properties. He noted a particularly rare capture of a western spotted skunk. “Probably the most interesting, the rare…
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