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POSEAC recommends Stillwater Bend conservation easement to county commissioners
Summary
Boulder County Parks and Open Space staff asked POSEAC to recommend purchase of a 140-acre conservation package near Hygiene/Longmont that would create an ~88-acre preserve, allow three house lots and remove one development right for $1.7 million; POSEAC voted unanimously to forward the recommendation.
Melissa Arnold, a land officer in Boulder County Parks and Open Space's real estate division, asked the Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee on the evening of the county's November meeting to recommend acquisition of a conservation easement on the 140-acre Stillwater Bend property west of Hygiene near Longmont.
Arnold said the parcel includes 1,700 feet of Saint Vrain Creek, reclaimed gravel ponds and an unusual off-channel backwater created by the 2013 flood that provides breeding habitat for native species including a rare Colorado fish, the northern redbelly dace. She said the Hepp family has partnered with county wildlife staff on species…
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