Updating our Wildlife Management Plan

Thank you for asking. Please see my previous post. Just wanted to add thanks.

Wildlife around my home

I have wasps building nests behind the wood boards of my home. I want to know how to help them thrive without building their nests in my home. I had bats living behind window shutters; i put up a bat house at the back of my yard and a handyman chased the bats out from behind the shutters. I would like to know how to introduce bats into the bat home. One neighbor complained about mosquitoes; would bringing bats back help with controlling them for all our sakes? I have squirrels chasing each other around my apple trees; last year i found two dead squirrels (flattened by cars?) on my street; I would like to know how to help the two that i see thrive without being dependent on me feeding them. I would welcome the buzz of bees without becoming a beekeeper. Can Longmont give up the use of pesticides with the intention of bringing bees back? There are raccoons around; i have heard neighbors complain; all i have seen is their scat in my garden boxes. I love the sound of birds. I don't see magpies anymore. There are geese in Loomiller pond; some neighbors complain but i can live with them (both geese and neighbors!). There are mallard ducks - yay - so cute - let's have more!

Hummingbirds. I would like to see a demonstration garden plot in the new Dickens Park with labels to show what residents can plant.

Attract Hummingbirds

More involvement of Natural Resources in deciding matters concerning wildlife and wildlife habitat on- and off-site of development sites.

The City needs an improved process to ensure that a development applicant properly manages wildlife on their development site. The planning and development services director should refer every development application with wildlife and wildlife habitat-related issues to the Natural Resources department for its review and recommendations. This should include supporting documents of the application, such as the habitat species conservation plan. Sidestepping Natural Resources involvement in the development review process will be detrimental to Longmont’s wildlife and to the Longmont community. The people of Longmont highly value our wildlife. The city needs more oversight concerning the protection of our wildlife, not less.

Longmont needs more policies to protect pollinators. What can Longmont do about this? One example is there are fewer bees this year 2019

More wildlife monitoring volunteers

More wildlife monitoring volunteers should be recruited so the city has a fuller picture of what species are present all year long. These surveys should be used to inform proposed development applications.

Provide citizen-scientist type of data recordings of species, locations and dates of observation as well as possible photographs of the same

In the northwest area close to and around McIntosh Lake, I have seen a muskrat in a very small pond, and am especially interested in predatory and prey mammal species. I would like the City to capture population data on non-endangered species such as ground squirrels, deer mice, woodrats, swift, gray and red foxes, coyotes and the like with the help of observations by residents or visitors.