US 36 Granite Property PMJM Monitoring

The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) completed the construction of a habitat restoration project intended to mitigate impacts to the existing South Boulder Creek Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (PMJM) population located in the footprint of the US 36 Managed Lane Project. The mitigation involved habitat creation and restoration at an 18-acre site known as the Granite Property in south Boulder, which is located adjacent to a known PMJM population. CDOT frequently invests substantially in species-specific habitat restoration similar to the Granite Project, but it is often not known if the species of concern actually benefits from these efforts in the long-term. The study seeks to understand the effectiveness of the habitat restoration work by monitoring the presence/absence of the PMJM, which are known to inhabit the adjoining property. This project involves a presence/absence trapping effort within the boundaries of the Granite property to provide a baseline for comparison with future data collection. Subsequent years involved a trapping effort with attempts to understand PMJM habitat use in the area.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Colorado Department of Transportation

  Applied Research and Innovation Branch
  Denver, CO  United States  80204
• Project Managers:

  Roeder, Bryan

• Start Date: 20170617
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20220531

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Habitat (Ecology); Wildlife
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01927169
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Colorado Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 13 2024 5:53PM