Management Plans

Management Plans are listed alphabetically by property and available in Portable Document Format (PDF).  Some files are very large and may take a while to download depending on your internet connection.  PDFs require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.


 

Bald Mountain Scenic Area

• Management Plan (2.7MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, 1985.

Betasso Preserve

• Management Plan (link to new page), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, June 2, 2009.

Caribou Ranch

• Resource Evaluation (1.2MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, August 2002, 79 pages.

• Management Plan (505KB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, August 2002, 59 pages.

Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm

• Management Plan Addendum (1.8MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, September 5, 2002, 71 pages.

Fairgrounds Park

• Fairgrounds Park Policy Manual (628MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners to be effective January 1, 2004, 28 pages.

Grasslands in Boulder County

• Grassland Management Plan - Prairie Dog Habitat Element (1MB pdf), first adopted by the Board of County Commissioners in 1999. Updates approved by the BOCC May 5, 2009, 87 pages.
   

Gunbarrel Hill Agricultural Open Space

• Management Plan (1.4MB PDF), Part I: Introduction; Part II: Existing Conditions; Part III: Management Plan, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, November 8, 2005, 64 pages.
  Attachments:

  • Fig 1 Location and Ownership (2.7MB PDF)
  • Fig 2 Soils Capability Class (34.5MB PDF)
  • Fig 3 Vegetation Communities (846KB PDF)
  • Fig 4 Significant Resources (488KB PDF)
  • Fig 5 Management Areas (1.3MB PDF)
  • Fig 6 Trails (467KB PDF)
  • Fig 7 Infrastructure (530KB PDF)
  • Fig 8 Restoration Zones (644KB PDF)
     

Harney-Lastoka Open Space

• Management Plan (10.4MB PDF), Part I: Resource Evaluation; Part II: Management Plan, April 2004, 112 pages.

Two Creeks Open Space and Warembourg-Lafayette Farm (Jointly Owned Boulder County-Lafayette Open Space)

• Management Plan (12.9MB PDF), February 2007,
  112 pages, includes maps.
• Vicinity Map (680KB PDF)

Jointly Owned Boulder County-Lafayette-Louisville Open Space

• Management Plan (1.6MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, February 2004, 151 pages.
  Attachments:

  • Location Map (180KB PDF)
  • Topography (125KB PDF)
  • Soils (168KB PDF)
  • Significant Agricultural Land (84KB PDF)
  • Adler/Fingru - Agricultural Infrastructure (816KB PDF)
  • Adler/Fingru - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (50KB PDF)
  • Admor - Agricultural Infrastructure (787KB PDF)
  • Admor - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (42KB PDF)
  • Boulder County Land Venture - Agricultural Infrastructure (3.3MB PDF)
  • Boulder County Land Venture - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (94KB PDF)
  • Bowes - Agricultural Infrastructure (805KB PDF)
  • Bowes - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (150KB PDF)
  • Callahan - Agricultural (842KB PDF) Infrastructure/Hydrologic Features and Field Types
  • Esmail - Agricultural Infrastructure/Hydrologic Features and Field Types (665KB PDF)
  • Mayhoffer (Section 15) - Agricultural Infrastructure (631KB PDF)
  • Mayhoffer (Section 15) - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (790KB PDF)
  • Scriffiny (Section 19) - Agricultural Infrastructure (764KB PDF)
  • Scriffiny (Section 19) - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (200KB PDF)
  • Trillium - Agricultural Infrastructure (676KB PDF)
  • Trillium - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (70KB PDF)
  • Trillium - Vegetation Communities (107KB PDF)
  • Warembourg - Agricultural Infrastructure (3.6MB PDF)
  • Warembourg - Hydrologic Features and Field Types (91KB PDF)

Lower Boulder Creek and Coal Creek

• Lower Boulder Creek and Coal Creek Open Space Master Plan (20.8MB PDF) (1998)

Mud Lake Open Space

• Resource Evaluation and Management Considerations (1.7MB PDF), November 2002, 44 pages.

• Management Plan (2.7MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, August 2004, 32 pages

• Trails Master Plan (4.3MB PDF), August 2004, map.

Niwot Loop Trails

• Niwot Trails Master Plan (1.3MB PDF), approved by the Board of County Commissioners July 11, 2006; 48 pages, 1.3 MB pdf.

• Staff Memorandum to Board of County Commissioners (210KB PDF), dated July 11, 2006.

North Foothills Open Space - Hall Ranch, Heil Valley Ranch, and Trevarton

• Volume I: Resource Evaluation (8MB PDF), completed in March 1996, 111 pages.

• Volume II: Management Direction & Visitor Use Plan (5.3MB PDF), completed in April 1996 and adopted by the Board of County Commissioners in June 1996, 52 pages.

• Amendment I: adopted by the Board of County Commissioners January 12, 2006.

  • Memorandum to BOCC outlining staff recommendations (184KB PDF)
  • Summary of January 12, 2006 BOCC hearing (73KB PDF)

  • Hall to Lyons Map (2.5MB PDF)

  • Heil Valley Ranch Closure Amendments (3.3MB PDF)

  • Heil to Lyons Map (2.6MB PDF)

Noxious Weeds

• Noxious Weeds Management Plan (372KB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, amended July 2004, 35 pages.

Pella Crossing Open Space

• Visitor Use Plan (467KB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners May 2003, 21 pages. Attachments:

  • Management Areas Plan Map (2.7MB PDF)
  • Trail Extension Site Map

Platt Rogers Memorial Park, Reynolds Ranch, & Rogers Open Space

• Management Plan (2.2MB PDF), June 2000, adopted by the Board of County Commissioners November 2000, 63 pages.

• Resource Evaluation (205KB PDF), May 1999, Draft, 87 pages.

Quicksilver Trail

• Management Plan (70KB PDF), Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners November 2008, 2 pages.

St. Vrain Corridor

• Trail Master Plan (5.5MB PDF), adopted by the Board of County Commissioners, January 2004. Attachments:

  • Executive Summary (1.5MB PDF)

  • Fig. 1 - St. Vrain Corridor Location (655KB PDF)

  • Fig. 2a - Northwest Corridor Resources (533KB PDF)

  • Fig. 2b - Southeast Corridor Resources (408KB PDF)

  • Fig. 3 - Resource Composite (247MB PDF)

  • Fig. 4a - Northwest Corridor Analysis (3.5MB PDF)

  • Fig. 4b - Southeast Corridor Analysis (3.5MB PDF)

  • Fig. 5a - Northwest Master Plan (246KB PDF)

  • Fig. 5b - Southeast Master Plan (240KB PDF)

  • Fig. C-1 - Potential Trail Alignments (192KB PDF)

• Open Space Master Plan (1.6MB PDF)

  • Fig. 1 - Location Map (3.6MB PDF)

  • Fig. 2 - Soils (5.9MB PDF)

  • Fig. 3a - Vegetation northwest (1.9MB PDF)

  • Fig. 3b - Vegetation southeast (3.1MB PDF)

  • Fig. 4a - Wetlands northwest (2MB PDF)

  • Fig. 4b - Wetlands southeast (3MB PDF)

  • Fig. 5 - Mining Areas (3.8MB PDF)

  • Fig. 6a - Significant Resources northwest (544KB PDF)

  • Fig. 6b - Significant Resources southeast (268KB PDF)

  • Fig. 7 - Resource Composite (475KB PDF)

  • Fig. 8 - Management Areas (3.8MB PDF)

  • Fig. 9 - Trails (3.6MB PDF)

  • Fig. 10 - Agricultural Infrastructure (351KB PDF)

Twin Lakes

Resource Evaluation and Management Plan (4.8MB PDF), October 2004, 60 pages.

Walden Ponds

•  Management Plan (8.4MB PDF), May, 1982, 245 pages.

County/BLM Land Exchanges

• Ward/BLM Environmental Assessment Record (101KB PDF), December 2002, draft, 39 pages.

• Ward Notice of Availability (90KB PDF), December 2002, 6 pages.