Northern San Juan • Entered by Robyn Cascade on December 28, 2024
Bighorn Sheep Advocacy
September 14, 2024 – November 13, 2024
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0 |
| Post Admin hours | 1 |
| Activity Hours | 28 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 29 |
Key Issue: Wildlife Protection
Activity Type: Advocacy (rallies, lobbying, meeting decision makers, letters/calls/emails)
Key Partners: BHA, RMBS, Advocates for the West (AW,) Western Watershed Project (WWP,) BLM Gunnison Field Office (GFO)
Landscape/area: Uncompahgre National Forest (951767 acres)
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Advocacy actions (2 meetings with BLM Gunnison Field manager)
Short Description of Activity
Ongoing advocacy related to protecting bighorn sheep from disease transmission by domestic sheep. Engaging with decision-makers; strategizing with partner organizations and individual advocates (some former agency personnel and attorneys) particularly regarding CPW Director and Commissioners about securing the health of Colorado bighorn herds.. Also much communication regarding the AW/Broads event that was to have taken place on November 14 in Durango.
Reflection/Evaluation
A Colorado Bighorn Sheep Collaborative has been formed with first meeting taking place November 7, 2024. Plan to meet monthly.
Continue to build relationship and engage in productive conversation with BLM GFO manager Jon Kaminsky.
After much deliberation and conversation with Will Shoemaker (AW) and Dan & Laurie Parkinson, the scheduled bighorn event for November 14 was postponed. A week prior to the event only 10 people had confirmed attendance and AW attorney Laurie Rule was planning to fly in from Portland, OR. Our team will regroup in the new year to plan for a late spring 2025 event perhaps in Ouray or San Miguel County.