Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW)’s mission is “To perpetuate the wildlife resources of the state, provide a quality state parks system, and provide enjoyable and sustainable outdoor recreation opportunities that educate and inspire current and future generations to serve as active stewards of Colorado’s natural resources.” C.R.S. 33-9-101 (12) (b).
The Northwest Region work unit is a major, geographical based organizational unit of the Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), essentially the northwest quadrant of Colorado. The Region is responsible for administering and managing a group of state parks, administrative areas, state wildlife areas and all of the ancillary operations, programs, projects, and staff resources, fiscal resources and miscellaneous property resources relating to state parks, state wildlife areas and wildlife activities in the Northwest Region including the Regional Land Use Coordinator position.
This position exists to function as CPW’s NW Region Land Use Coordinator, a multi-disciplinary, fully-operational professional with little to no day-to-day supervision. Position serves as one of the region’s expert staff leads for reviewing, coordinating, and commenting on large-scale, complex, and often controversial land development and planning proposals involving numerous stakeholders and multiple jurisdictions. The position devises, collects, evaluates, formulates scientific theories and processes to advance CPW recommendations to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse impacts to wildlife resources resulting from development activities. The position collects and verifies field data and other information necessary to comply with program and regulatory standards and requirements for wildlife conservation. While the general program or system exists, the application must be individualized for each project or situation. Examples include, but are not limited to: coordinating with multiple CPW areas to develop recommendations for USFS Forest Plan and BLM Resource Management Plan revisions; large-scale (multi-CPW area) Environmental Impact Statements and Environmental Assessments; and landscape-scale developments such as ski areas, regional recreation trail systems, oil & gas developments, renewable energy projects, transmission lines, timber sales, water developments, grazing allotment permit renewals, commercial and residential developments, mines & gravel pits, railroads, highways and wildlife transportation projects.
The position applies a combination of various scientific principles and theories in natural resource and wildlife management in order to avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse impacts to habitat resources, and monitor, protect and conserve wildlife species and habitats. The position is responsible for identifying regional habitat conservation and restoration priorities and synchronizing existing plans and strategies. This position ensures communications exchange statewide both internally and externally among stakeholders as well as interested publics to ensure and optimize the long-term perpetuation of wildlife habitat and populations throughout Colorado.
The position works with CPW staff to identify general and specific threats to big game winter range and migration corridors, threatened and endangered species, SWAP species including rare plants and invertebrates. Using available science, this position coordinates and recommends conservation actions directed at avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating threats to big game winter range and migration corridors, threatened and endangered species, SWAP species including rare plants and invertebrates. The position advises the CPW NW Region Leadership on development trends, research, regulatory and policy changes occurring in Colorado. Provides recommendations to Senior leadership on how those changes may impact CPW operations and policy.
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