Thursday, February 10th - Fort Collins Audubon Society hosts Carmen Farmer for “Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse in the North Fork of the Poudre River Watershed"

[Andrew Monson]

Fort Collins Audubon invites you to join a virtual (and in-person watch party) program featuring Carmen Farmer, Project Manager for Colorado Open Lands. Carmen will be presenting “Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse in the North Fork of the Poudre River Watershed" tomorrow night, Thursday, February 10th, 2022; Announcements at 7:00pm and Program at 7:20pm.

Virtual attendees: Enter the following link on your web browser at or before 7 p.m. and follow the instructions to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82898433255 We will be enabling live closed-captioning for Zoom attendees.

In-person attendees: We will host a watch party at the Fort Collins Senior Center (1200 Raintree Dr).  Attendees are required to wear a mask.

”Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) only exists along the Front Range of Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. The North Fork of the Cache La Poudre River watershed provides good riparian habitat for the mouse. The species was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1998. Learn about efforts by private landowners along with local, state and federal land managers to help manage and enhance habit for this species. This presentation outlines some of the voluntary measures landowners are incorporating, ranging from riparian restoration efforts to the implementation of conservation easements.

Carmen Farmer is the Project Manager for Colorado Open Lands, a statewide land trust that holds easements on over 600,00 acres. Based in Fort Collins, Carmen overseas conservation easements for the Northern Front Range and Lower South Platte Basin."

Andrew Monson

PR Chair, FCAS

Fort Collins, CO