Monarch Butterfly

Hickman works in the Department’s Wildlife Diversity Program and is the Department’s Watchable Wildlife Program leader.

Who We Are We are a collaborative group of individuals, each with a diverse and unique background and skill set, that work together to solve and manage any variety of environmental issues.

Prairie Partners is a program designed by the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory to conserve prairie birds and the habitat they depend upon. Over 70% of the Great Plains is privately owned.

Jim is an environmental geologist with 28 years of residency in Colorado including Gunnison, Grand Junction, and Denver. After earning his B.

Monarch Health is a citizen science project in which volunteers sample wild monarch butterflies to help track the spread of a protozoan parasite across North America.

The Bee Research Lab conducts research to improve the health of honey bee colonies and help the beekeeping industry maintain an adequate healthy supply of bees for the pollination of crops.

We work with private landowners, business & industry, municipalities and government agencies to help these stakeholders understand and benefit from the expanding market for ecological assets, including mitigation and conservation credits, water quality credits and carbon sequestration credits.