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LC140 Louisville <br />MEMORANDUM <br />To: Open Space Advisory Board <br />From: Open Space Division <br />Date: December 13, 2023 <br />Re: Information Item 6: Staff Updates <br />General: <br />1. Board and Commission interviews will occur on December 11-12th, 2023 <br />2. Council will approve board appointments on December 19th, 2023 <br />3. City Council is tentatively scheduled to meet with OSAB, PPLAB, and the Revitalization <br />Commission with a Special Meeting on February 13th, 2024, at 6:00pm <br />4. Open Space staff is engaged in the Core Team forthe Boulder County Community Wildfire <br />Protection Plan planning efforts. <br />5. During the December meeting staff will collect OSAB volunteer hours for 2023. <br />Natural Resources: <br />1. The prairie dog contractor has completed management on select Open Space properties. <br />Staff is excited to share that over 200 prairie dogs have been successfully relocated from <br />a select area of Davidson Mesa Open Space to a receiving site in Pueblo, Colorado. This <br />relocation effort was in partnership with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Colorado Parks <br />and Wildlife, and the U.S. Army Chemical Depot to help re-establish a large prairie dog <br />colony and reintroduce Black -Footed Ferrets in prairie ecosystems. <br />2. Staff has completed Russian olive removal on Hecla Lake, Warembourg, and Bullhead <br />Gulch Open Spaces. <br />3. The herbicide contractor is scheduled to treat Japanese brome and cheat grass on <br />Davidson Mesa in December. <br />4. Raptor monitoring results: Staff and volunteers monitored 17 raptor nests including great <br />horned owls, red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, Swainson's hawks, and Cooper's <br />hawks. Twelve nests were occupied, and 23 young were visually observed with 21 chicks <br />fledged or assumed fledged. Two chicks and one nest failed. Volunteers contributed 96.25 <br />hours to monitoring efforts. <br />Maintenance & Trails: <br />1. The Aquarius Parking Lot Resurfacing project is scheduled to start on Wednesday, <br />December 61h, 2023 and is planned for completion by Friday, December 22nd, 2023. <br />Contractors will be excavating and disposing of one to two inches of the existing materials. <br />They will then regrade will installing three inches of new materials. Following that, they <br />8 <br />