Piceance Basin wildlife habitat benefits from new restoration plan

A five-year Colorado Parks and Wildlife research project is improving techniques to restore wildlife habitat in northwest Colorado’s Piceance Basin after intense energy development.
The Piceance Basin, a 7,100-square-mile area in Rio Blanco County northeast of Grand Junction, is an irreplaceable wildlife area — the largest migratory mule deer herd in the country spends the winter in the basin and a small population of a threatened sage-grouse species lives there year-round.
“Excellent restoration of wildlife…