Stories tagged with Southern Ute Wildlife Division (page 2)

The Southern Ute Wildlife Division is pleased to announce the hatching of two osprey eggs at our nest at Lake Capote. The two chicks emerged from their shells starting on Friday, June 12, and the parent birds are busy feeding and tending to them.

Fri Jun 26th, 2020

Osprey raise their young

Fri May 22nd, 2020

Avoiding black bear encounters

Thu Feb 14th, 2019

2019-2020 Southern Ute Fishing Proclamation

The three foxes await their release back into the wild.

Fri Jul 6th, 2018

Foxes come full circle

Fri May 11th, 2018

Avoiding black bear encounters

Southern Ute Montessori Academy students, Terena Hight and Jaela Velasco are the winners of the Osprey Naming Contest. Hight and Velasco were presented with Osprey backpacks for winning the contest on Tuesday, April 24.

Fri Apr 27th, 2018

Academy students name local ospreys

A record number of Southern Ute tribal members participated in this year's January Cow Elk Hunt, 40 in all. This is certainly related to the difficulty in finding scarce elk on the reservation during the regular tribal member seasons due to an unusually warm winter.

Fri Feb 2nd, 2018

Migration patterns shift with unseasonably warm weather, lack of snow

A mule deer takes shelter amongst the red willow. Deer populations are prevalent on the Southern Ute Reservation and make it possible for the Tribe to share these animals with other tribes for cultural purposes.

Tue Nov 21st, 2017

Cultural hunts honor traditional ways

Southern Ute Wildlife Division conducted an electrofishing survey on the Pine River through Ignacio on Monday, Oct. 9.

Fri Oct 13th, 2017

Tribe and Nature Conservancy partner on water study

The fates of bears often hang in limbo, especially when natural food sources become scarce. Homeowners can do these wild animals a service by removing common attractants around their property such as: trash, pet food and bird feeders. Without proper incentive to roam urban areas in search of an easy meal, the bears will most likely return to their natural habitat.

Fri Sep 29th, 2017

Keeping harmony with bears

Fri Jul 21st, 2017

SU Wildlife receiving high number of bear calls

Jon Broholm, Wildlife Technician for the Southern Ute Wildlife Division monitors the Lake Capote osprey nest from his office on Tribal Campus on Tuesday, March 28. Broholm has the ability to change the video camera’s focal length, the camera’s direction and even capture high quality still frames from the live feed.

Fri Mar 31st, 2017

Ospreys livestreamed from Lake Capote

A total of eleven bison have been transferred from Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico to the Southern Ute Indian reservation where they will join the current herd.

Thu Mar 31st, 2016

Bison herd comes to town

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