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Colorado Parks and Wildlife briefs commissioners on landfill bear activity, habitat connectivity and wolf/wolverine plans
Summary
CPW Supervisor Matt Yamashita told the board black bears use the Pitkin County landfill, offered to have Colorado Bear Coalition research mitigation options, discussed habitat-improvement priorities and said Pitkin County was not selected for wolf releases this season.
Matt Yamashita, supervisor with Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), updated the Board on several wildlife issues, focusing on human-bear conflict at the Pitkin County landfill, landscape-scale connectivity, herd health and carnivore reintroduction planning.
On bears at the landfill, Yamashita said CPW has received public concerns and engaged the Colorado Bear Coalition. He cautioned there is no silver-bullet mitigation: "Electric fencing ... it's…
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